Man's estate : landed gentry masculinities, c.1660-c.1900 / by French, Henry, 1968-

Gentlemen on the Prairie : Victorians in Pioneer Iowa / by Harnack, Curtis, 1927-2013

Table of Contents: “…Going Out to Iowa; 5. Landed Gentry in the Making; 6. Some Difficulties Surmounted; 7. …”
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Russian officialdom in crisis : autocracy and local self-government, 1861-1900 / by Pearson, Thomas S.

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The domestic architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe / by Fazio, Michael W., Snadon, Patrick Alexander, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Reinterpreting Latrobe -- Learning the profession: Latrobe in the London office of Samuel Pepys Cockerell -- Hammerwood and Ashdown: Latrobe's English country houses and the architectural Avant Garde of the 1790s -- Reinventing the American house: an overview of Latrobe's design theories and architectural practice in a new country -- Houses for the Virginia landed gentry (1795-1798): Latrobe's first explorations of the American context -- Practice in Philadelphia (1798-1807): designs for a merchant elite, countryseats in Maryland and Ohio, and the emergence of the rational house -- A capital city and an expanding democracy (1807-1815): houses in Washington, D.C., Kentucky, and Pittsburgh -- Last houses (1815-1820): Latrobe's final years in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and New Orleans -- Some perspectives on an architect's career -- Epilogue: A preservation history of Latrobe's houses and notes on the vicissitudes of the Avant-Garde.…”
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An agrarian republic : farming, antislavery politics, and nature parks in the Civil War era / by Dean, Adam Wesley

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