| Description |
1 online resource (3 volumes) : illustrations (some color) |
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v. 1. From ancient times to the late Middle Ages, 6000 BCE-1200 -- v. 2. The Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution, 1201-1750 -- v. 3. The Industrial Revolution to today, 1751 to the present |
| Summary |
The house, throughout history, in every place in the world, has been built to provide shelter from the elements. The dwellings that have resulted are as different as the people that have built them, the social norms that prevailed at the time and place in which they were built and the natural environment that they adapted to. Studying them now in a comprehensive way allows us to understand the social, political, economic and religious conditions that existed for their inhabitants. They are a three-dimensional record of culture. Twenty-four pages of color images, along with black and white imag |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Architecture, Domestic -- History -- Encyclopedias
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Dwellings -- History -- Encyclopedias
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ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Residential.
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Architecture, Domestic
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Dwellings
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| Genre/Form |
Encyclopedias
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History
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Encyclopedias.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Greenwood Press (Westport, Conn.)
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| ISBN |
9780313081088 |
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0313081085 |
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