Ante bellum houses of the Bluegrass

The earliest forms of personal dwellings were constructed out of ice, stone, mud, and other materials locally found. Whether a tent or simple dwelling for an ordinary citizen, or a...

Historic House Museums in the United States and the United Kingdom: A History addresses the phenomenon of historic houses as a distinct species of museum. Everyone understands the ...

Archaeology (excavation, building survey, scientific dating) has established that peasant houses in much of Britain had a durability that was probably exceptional in late medieval ...

Domiciles ordinarily represent the first space that humans occupy, structures through which they begin to realize their own being and relation to the larger world. It is also in an...

As membership of the Lazarists swelled from the mid-1630s, de Paul introduced a new era for the group, characterized by major expansions in activity and infrastructure. This chapte...

This chapter argues that a reading of Jean Bodin offers important issues for the understanding of international law because he explicitly tried to develop, albeit briefly, a new br...

This chapter looks into the political culture of landed aristocracy and explores how it changed over time following the advent of the princely state. The discipline imposed by the ...