[Book review]

Author

Read, Alice Gray

Document type

Compte rendu de livre

Language

English

Source

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 1995, Num. 1, Vol. 54, 85-86

ISSN

0037-9808

Abstract (en)

Survey of historical archaeology in Philadelphia, based on over 300 reports of ca.150 investigations conducted in the city and environs since the late 1940s; describes and speculates about over 50 specific sites, and provides a geographic history of the area since the end of the last ice age. The reviewer finds that the meat of the book is in the descriptions of the sites, and that the matter-of-fact record of physical remains of both building and artifact offers a point of view on architectural history that is not habitual.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- Architecture -- United States
• Excavations
• United States
• Philadelphia (PA, USA)
• Archaeology
• Architecture
• Material culture
• 1600-1900

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- Architecture -- États-Unis
• Fouilles
• Etats-Unis
• Philadelphia (PA, USA)
• Archéologie
• Architecture
• Culture matérielle
• 1600-1900

Review of

19950701-00317990

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19950701-00317991

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