Back of the Big House
Author: John Michael Vlach
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBack of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery
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Author: John Michael Vlach
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBack of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery
Author: Thomas C. Hubka
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781584653721
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe twentieth anniversary edition of the classic architectural study of the development of the connected farm buildings made by 19th-century New Englanders, which offers insight into the people who made them.
Author: George Howe Colt
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-08-07
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 1439124914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFaced with the sale of the century-old family summer house on Cape Cod where he had spent forty-two summers, George Howe Colt recounts returning for one last stay with his wife and children in this stunning memoir that was a National Book Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. This poignant tribute to the eleven-bedroom jumble of gables, bays, and dormers that watched over weddings, divorces, deaths, anniversaries, birthdays, breakdowns, and love affairs for five generations interweaves Colt’s final visit with memories of a lifetime of summers. Run-down yet romantic, The Big House stands not only as a cherished reminder of summer’s ephemeral pleasures but also as a powerful symbol of a vanishing way of life.
Author: Sarah Susanka
Publisher: Taunton Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1561586056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a look at twenty-five examples of small designs to show readers what they need to know to plan the home that best fits their goals and lifestyles.
Author: John M. Eason
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017-03-06
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 022641034X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow more than ever, we need to understand the social, political, and economic shifts that have driven the United States to triple its prison construction in just over three decades. John Eason goes a very considerable distance here in fulfilling this need, not by detailing the aftereffects of building huge numbers of prisons, but by vividly showing the process by which a community seeks to get a prison built in their area. What prompted him to embark on this inquiry was the insistent question of why the rapid expansion of prisons in America, why now, and why so many. He quickly learned that the prison boom is best understood from the perspective of the rural, southern towns where they tend to be placed (North Carolina has twice as many prisons as New Jersey, though both states have the same number of prisoners). And so he sets up shop, as it were, in Forrest City, Arkansas, where he moved with his family to begin the splendid fieldwork that led to this book. A major part of his story deals with the emergence of the rural ghetto, abetted by white flight, de-industrialization, the emergence of public housing, and higher proportions of blacks and Latinos. How did Forrest City become a site for its prison? Eason takes us behind the decision-making scenes, tracking the impact of stigma (a prison in my backyard-not a likely desideratum), economic development, poverty, and race, while showing power-sharing among opposed groups of elite whites vs. black race leaders. Eason situates the prison within the dynamic shifts rural economies are undergoing, and shows how racially diverse communities can achieve the siting and building of prisons in their rural ghetto. The result is a full understanding of the ways in which a prison economy takes shape and operates."
Author: William Kauffman Scarborough
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2006-04-01
Total Pages: 541
ISBN-13: 0807131555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Kauffman Scarborough has produced a work of incomparable scope and depth, offering the challenge to see afresh one of the most powerful groups in American history—the wealthiest southern planters who owned 250 or more slaves in the census years of 1850 and 1860. The identification and tabulation in every slaveholding state of these lords of economic, social, and political influence reveals a highly learned class of men who set the tone for southern society while also involving themselves in the wider world of capitalism. Scarborough examines the demographics of elite families, the educational philosophy and religiosity of the nabobs, gender relations in the Big House, slave management methods, responses to secession, and adjustment to the travails of Reconstruction and an alien postwar world.
Author: John Michael Vlach
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBack of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery
Author: Jodi Skipper
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2022-03-22
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1609388178
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"When residents and tourists visit plantation sites, whose stories are told? All too often the lives of slaveowners are centered, obscuring the lives of enslaved people and making it impossible for their descendants to process the meanings of these sites. Behind the Big House gives readers a candid, behind the scenes look at what it really takes to interpret the difficult history of slavery in the U.S. South. The book explores Jodi Skipper's eight-year collaboration with the Behind the Big House program, a community-based model used at local historic sites around the country to address slavery in the collective narrative of U.S. history and culture. Part memoir and part ethnography, the book interweaves Skipper's experiences as a Black woman and a southerner to imagine more sustainable and healthy spaces for interracial collaborations around historic preservation and slavery tourism in the U.S. South. Skipper considers the growing need among professional and lay communities to address slavery and its impacts through interpretations of local historic sites. In laying out her experiences through an autoethnographic approach, Skipper seeks to help other activist scholars of color negotiate the nuances of place, the academic public sphere, and its ambiguous systems of reward, recognition, and evaluation. By directly speaking to a failed integration of teaching, research, and service as a crisis in academia, she strives not to give others answers, but to model another way of being"--
Author: Patricia C. McKissack
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave quarters just before the Civil War.
Author: Sarah Susanka
Publisher: Taunton Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1561583766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a review of social trends and their effect on architecture and design.