Enclaves of America : the Rhetoric of American Political Architecture Abroad, 1900-1965.

Whether determining the style of its embassies or the design of overseas cemeteries for Americans killed in battle, the U.S. government in its rise to global leadership greatly valued architectural symbols as a way of conveying its power abroad. In order to explain the political significance of Amer...

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Հիմնական հեղինակ: Robin, Ron Theodore
Ձևաչափ: Licensed eBooks
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Հրապարակվել է: Princeton : Princeton University Press 2014.
Շարք:Princeton legacy library.
Առցանց հասանելիություն:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7ztz6b
Բովանդակություն:
  • List of Illustrations ; Preface ; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART ONE; 1. Prologue: Hesitant Beginnings; 2. Incident at Sivry-sur -Meuse: Great War Monuments and Cemeteries in Western Europe; 3. From Palace to Plantation House: The Political Architecture of American Embassies, 1926-1932; PART TWO; 4. Interlude: MarkingTime, 1933-1945; 5. ""Our Own Land on Foreign Soil"" : The Overseas Military Cemeteries of World War II; 6. Foreign Bodies: American Imperial Architecture, 1945-1965; 7. Epilogue: Retreat; Notes; Bibliographical Essay; Index.