To Build in a New Land: Ethnic Landscapes in North America

Book Overview

Lavishly illustrated with historical photographs, maps, and architectural drawings, To Build in a New Land includes chapters on Ukrainian pioneer landscapes in western Canada, Cajun farmsteads in Louisiana, Czech settlements in South Dakota, Danish homes in Iowa and Minnesota, vernacular architecture of the German-Russian Mennonites of southeastern Manitoba, Afro-American housing in the southeastern United States, and the regional variations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801841895
• ISBN13: 9780801841897
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.3" x 11.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher