Front Yard America: The Evolution and Meanings of a Vernacular Domestic LandscapeThroughout Front Yard America, Schroeder inquires into the functions, values, and meanings that Americans have found in the domestic landscapes of back yards and front yards, walls and fences, porches and patios. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Part | 17 |
Part Three | 31 |
Part Four | 41 |
Part Five | 75 |
Part | 97 |
Part Seven | 103 |
Part Nine | 137 |
Notes | 155 |
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