Front Yard America the Evolution : The Evolution and Meanings of a Vernacular Domestic Landscape

ISBN-13: 9780879726355 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993

Fred E. H. Schroeder

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Continuing his exploration of popular American culture, Schroeder investigates how the front yard came to be, with its clipped lawns, shaped bushes, conventional flowers, noble shade trees, sidewalk frames, and other elements denoting respectability. He notes that it came into being between 1870 and