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For roughly a century, the log cabin occupied a central and
indispensable role in the rapidly growing United States. Although
it largely disappeared as a living space, it lived on as a symbol
of the settling of the nation. In her thought-provoking and
generously illustrated new book, Alison Hoagland looks at this
once-common dwelling as a practical shelter solution-easy to
construct, built on the frontier's abundance of trees, and not
necessarily meant to be permanent-and its evolving place in the
public memory. Hoagland shows how the log cabin was a uniquely
adaptable symbol, responsive to the needs of the cultural moment.
It served as the noble birthplace of presidents, but it was also
seen as the basest form of housing, accommodating the lowly poor.
It functioned as a paragon of domesticity, but it was also a basic
element in the life of striving and wandering. Held up as a triumph
of westward expansion, it was also perceived as a building type to
be discarded in favor of more civilized forms. In the twentieth
century, the log cabin became ingrained in popular culture, serving
as second homes and motels, as well as restaurants and shops
striking a rustic note. The romantic view of the past, combined
with the log cabin's simplicity, solidity, and compatibility with
nature, has made it an enduring architectural and cultural icon.
Preparation of this volume has been supported by Furthermore: a
program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund
This book gives a complete history of the American bathroom and
describes how the smallest yet most complex room in the American
house is at the nexus of personal behavior and public investment.
The Bathroom: A Social History of Cleanliness and the Body is the
first scholarly treatment of the American bathroom-as a space in
the house, through nearly two centuries. After a brief nod to
precedents set by other countries and to elements of the bathroom
that may be placed in different parts of the house, this book
traces the development of the bathroom in the American house since
the Civil War, when the bathroom began to take shape. The bathroom
is considered in light of many socially relevant themes, such as
cleanliness, sanitation, technology, and consumerism. Taken as a
whole, the book bridges the gap between the public and private
infrastructure of the bathroom and reveals the ways in which the
space transforms its occupants into consumers. Its language is
jargon-free, making it ideal for students, general readers, and
researchers. Offers a comprehensive overview of the history of the
American bathroom Provides a detailed look at the material culture
of the bathroom Focuses on the bathroom as a social space of
consumers Includes chapters that connect the bathroom with the
public infrastructure (e.g., sanitation, technology) that surrounds
it Features 20 images that show the historical progression of the
bathroom in American homes
During the nineteenth century, the Keweenaw Peninsula of Northern
Michigan was the site of America's first mineral land rush as
companies hastened to profit from the region's vast copper
deposits. In order to lure workers to such a remote location--and
work long hours in dangerous conditions--companies offered not just
competitive wages but also helped provide the very infrastructure
of town life in the form of affordable housing, schools,
health-care facilities, and churches. The first working-class
history of domestic life in Copper Country company towns during the
boom years of 1890 to 1918, Alison K. Hoagland's "Mine Towns"
investigates how the architecture of a company town revealed the
paternal relationship that existed between company managers and
workers--a relationship that both parties turned to their own
advantage. The story of Joseph and Antonia Putrich, immigrants from
Croatia, punctuates and illustrates the realities of life in a
booming company town. While company managers provided housing as a
way to develop and control a stable workforce, workers often
rejected this domestic ideal and used homes as an economic
resource, taking in boarders to help generate further income.
Focusing on how the exchange between company managers and a largely
immigrant workforce took the form of negotiation rather than a
top-down system, Hoagland examines surviving buildings and uses
Copper Country's built environment to map this remarkable
connection between a company and its workers at the height of
Michigan's largest land rush.
During the nineteenth century, the U.S. military built numerous
forts across the country as it stationed more and more troops west
of the Mississippi. When most people think about military forts in
the American West, they imagine imposing strongholds, meccas of
defense enclosed by high, palisaded walls. This popular view,
however, is far from reality.In Army Architecture in the West,
Alison K. Hoagland dispels the myth that all western forts were
uniform structures of military might churned out according to a
master set of plans authorized by army officials in Washington,
D.C. Instead, by examining three exemplary Wyoming forts, Hoagland
reveals that widely varying architectural designs were used to
construct western forts. With more than 120 illustrations, Army
Architecture in the West offers a new way of using architecture to
gain insight into the role of the army in the American West. By
focusing on the tangible remains of the army's presence in the
West, Hoagland presents a new vision of American military history.
Although vernacular architecture scholarship has expanded beyond
its core fascination with common buildings and places, its
attention remains fixed on the social function of building.
Consistent with this expansion of interests, Constructing Image,
Identity, and Place includes essays on a wide variety of American
building types and landscapes drawn from a broad geographic and
chronological spectrum. Subjects range from examinations of the
houses, hotels and churches of America's colonial and Republican
elite to analyses of the humble cottages of Southern sharecroppers
and mill workers, Mississippi juke joints, and the ephemeral rustic
arbors and bowers erected by Civil War soldiers. Other contributors
examine or reexamine the form of early synagogues in Georgia,
colonial construction technologies in the Chesapeake, the
appropriation and use of storefront windows by San Francisco
suffragists, and the evolution of the modern factory tour. Other
decidedly twentieth-century topics include the impact of the
automobile on American building forms and landscapes, including
parkways, drive-in movie theaters, and shopping malls.
Drawn from the Vernacular Architecture Forum conferences of 1998
and 1999, these seventeen essays represent the broad range of
topics and methodologies current in the field today. The volume
will introduce newcomers to the breadth and depth of vernacular
architecture while also bringing established scholars up to date on
the field's continued growth and maturation.
The Editors: Alison K. Hoagland is associate professor of history
and historic preservation at Michigan Technological University.
Kenneth A. Breisch is director of Programs in Historic Preservation
at the University of Southern California. He is author of Henry
Hobson Richardson and the Small Public Library in America.
The Contributors: Shannon Bell, Robert W. Blythe, Timothy Davis,
Stephanie Dyer, Willie Graham, Kathleen LaFrank, William Littmann,
Carl Lounsbury, Al Luckenbach, Sherri M. Marsh, Maurie McInnis,
Steven H. Moffson, Jason D. Moser, Jennifer Nardone, Martin C.
Perdue, Mark Reinberger, Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz, Jessica
Sewell, Donna Ware, and Camille Wells.
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