The Plantations of Colonial South Carolina: Transmission and Transformation in Provincial Culture
Entry/Object ID
2008.002.0209
Description
Doctoral dissertation (Columbia University) that presents a survey of the vernacular architecture of South Carolina during the Colonial period; the chronological history of SC plantation architecture; a detailed account of materials and building technology; a discussion of designers and the design process; an examination of the transmission and transformation of four selected architectural features (porch towers, pediments, piazzas, central halls); a study of town and country lifestyle and its relation to European tradition; and a historiography and definitions of "provincialism" and associated concepts.
xv, 614 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. (softcover)