Town house : architecture and material life in the early American city, 1780-1830 / Bernard L. Herman.

Author
Herman, Bernard L., 1951- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, c2005.
Description
xviii, 295 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-287) and index.
Contents
  • Urban settings: houses and housing in the early American city
  • The merchant family's house
  • The burgher's dilemma
  • The servants' quarter
  • The widow's dower
  • The shipwright's lodgings
  • A traveler's portmanteau
  • A poetical city.
ISBN
0807829919 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2005005918
OCLC
58050683
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