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Material Culture and Architecture

 

Ogata, Amy F., “Building for Learning in Postwar American Elementary Schools,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 67 (Dec. 2008), 562–91.

Osmond, Gary, “‘Modest Monuments’?,” Journal of Pacific History (Melbourne), 43 (Dec. 2008), 313–29.

Smucker, Janneken, “Early Nineteenth-Century Embroidered Bedcovers,” Winterthur Portfolio, 42 (Winter 2008), 223–42.

 

Kernan, Barbara L., “Edith Wharton in the Art and ‘Act of Making a Habitation for Herself’” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314187.

Lourie, Ariane de la Belleissue, “Mass-Produced Aura: Thonet and the Market for Modern Design, 1930–1953” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3312919.

Lucas, Michael Thomas, “Negotiating Public Landscapes: History, Archaeology, and the Material Culture of Colonial Chesapeake Towns, 1680 to 1720” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3307773.

Marcinkus, Andrea Kolasinski, “Nature Fancywork: Women’s Discourse with Nature through Craft in late Nineteenth-Century America” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314170.

Shellenbarger, Melanie, “High Country Summers: The Emergence and Development of the Second Home in Colorado, 1880–1940” (University of Colorado at Denver, 2008). Order No. DA3312867.

Strassel, Annemarie Elizabeth, “Redressing Women: Feminism in Fashion and the Creation of American Style, 1930–1960” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3317280.

 

Bassett, Lynne Zacek, ed., Massachusetts Quilts: Our Common Wealth. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2009. xviii, 336 pp. $60.00, isbn 978-1-58465-745-3.) Heavily illustrated.

Goode, James M., Washington Sculpture: A Cultural History of Outdoor Sculpture in the Nation’s Capitol. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xii, 830 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8810-6.)

Greene, Candace S., One Hundred Summers: A Kiowa Calendar Record. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. xxii, 263 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8032-1940-3.) Heavily illustrated.

Nelson, Louis P., The Beauty of Holiness: Anglicanism and Architecture in Colonial South Carolina. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xii, 483 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3233-2.) Heavily illustrated.

Postal, Matthew A., ed., Guide to New York City Landmarks. (Hoboken: Wiley, 2009. xii, 451 pp. Paper, $32.95, isbn 978-0-470-28963-1.) Fourth edition with new landmark designations.

Stubbs, John H., Time Honored: A Global View of Architectural Conservation; Parameters, Theory, and Evolution of an Ethos. (Hoboken: Wiley, 2009. xiv, 434 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-0-470-26049-4.) Heavily illustrated.

 

Harbeson, John F., The Study of Architectural Design. (New York: Norton, 2008. xxxii, 310 pp. Paper, $45.00, isbn 978-0-393-73128-6.) Originally published in 1926; heavily illustrated.

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