Dianne S Harris

The Nature of Authority: Villa Culture, Landscape, and Representation in Eighteenth-Century Lombardy

Villas and Gardens in Early Modern Italy and France

Sites Unseen: Landscape and Vision

Sites Unseen: Landscape and Vision

Villas and Gardens in Early Modern Italy and France (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism)

This volume focuses on selected villas and their gardens in France and Italy from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Interdisciplinary and fundamentally contextualizing in approach, the essays examine the relationship between landscape and court culture and statecraft; villas in their b...

Herbal Antibiotics and Antivirals: Learn Natural Herbal Treatments That Can Cure Almost All Ailments Today

Herbal Antibiotics and Antivirals- Natural Herbal Treatments that can Cure Almost All Ailments It’s been a part of human culture for 60,000 years, and you can see its influence in every great civilization throughout history, from the Egyptians to the Greeks to the Chinese. It has saved countless hum...

Sites Unseen: Landscape and Vision

Sites Unseen challenges conventions for viewing and interpreting the landscape, using visual theory to move beyond traditional practices of describing and classifying objects to explore notions of audience and context. While other fields, such as art history and geography, have engaged poststructura...

Second Suburb: Levittown, Pennsylvania (Culture Politics & the Built Environment)

Carved from eight square miles of Bucks County farmland northeast of Philadelphia, Levittown, Pennsylvania, is a symbol of postwar suburbia and the fulfillment of the American dream. Begun in 1952, after the completion of an identically named community on Long Island, the second Levittown soon eclip...

The Complete Guide to Writing Effective & Award-Winning Grants: Step-by-Step Instructions With Companion CD-ROM

Every day federal, state, and local government as well as other organizations including corporations and foundations give out more than a MILLION DOLLARS IN FREE GRANT MONEY. A grant is essentially a gift. It goes to an organization, municipality, business, or individual to enable them to continue c...

The Nature of Authority: Villa Culture, Landscape, and Representation in Eighteenth-Century Lombardy (Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies)

Italian villas are generally regarded as beautiful havens where a privileged elite, fleeing the harsh realities of the city, found peace and harmony amid buildings and gardens framed upon classical ideals of proportion, balance, and the natural. In her interdisciplinary book, Dianne Harris presents ...

Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America (Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture)

A rare exploration of the racial and class politics of architecture, Little White Houses examines how postwar media representations associated the ordinary single-family house with middle-class whites to the exclusion of others, creating a powerful and invidious cultural iconography that continues t...