| Description |
192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; portraits (some color) ; 29 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
INTROD. -- Ch.1. Gods, kings, and emperors - Akhenaten and the horizon of the sun-disc - Hadrian and the Pantheon - Justinian and Hagia Sophia - Suryavarman II and Angkor Wat -- Ch. 2. Hail the conquering hero - William the Conqueror and the White Tower - Kubilai Khan and Beijing - Edward I and his Welsh castles - Muhammad V and the Alhambra - Akbar and Fatehpur Sikri -- Ch. 3. Renaissance - The medici and Florence - Francis I and Fontainebleau - Pope Julius III and the Villa Giulia - Philip II and the Escorial - Pope Sixtus V and Rome -- Ch. 4. East and West - Christian IV and Federiksborg - Shah Jahan and the Taj Mahal - Toshihito and the Katsura Imperial Villa - Louis XIV and Versailles -- Ch. 5. Places of power - Catherine the Great and Tsarskoye Selo - Thomas Jefferson and Monticello - Geroge Washington and the Federal City - George IV and Buckingham Palace - Ludwig II and Neuschwanstein -- Ch. 6. The great dictators - Peter the Great and St Petersburg - Napoleon III and Paris - Denito Mussolini and the EUR, Rome - Adolf Hitler and Berlin - Joseph Stalin and Moscow -- Ch. 7. Prestige in a democratic age - The AT&T Building, New York - François Mitterrand and Paris - The Sultan of Brunei and the Istana Nurul Iman - Prince Charles and Poundbury - J. Paul Getty and the Getty Center |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Donated by Shiak Kai Loui |
| Subject |
Architecture and society.
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Architecture and state.
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Architecture and state -- History.
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Power (Social sciences) in art.
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Architecture -- History.
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Architecture -- Political aspects.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Author |
Tinniswood, Adrian.
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| ISBN |
1840000279 |
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