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Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - This book spans the f�ll range of the built environment in America from precolonial times through the pr�nt. It has been written to be comprehensive in scope, reli-able in fact, informative in substance, and succinct in pr�ntation. In defining and illustrating ail those terms that provide the basic language of American architecture, the intention is to provide readers not only with pr�se information about the various types of local dwellings, houses, civic and commercial buildings, and houses of worship illustrative of American architectural design, and the techniques and materials used in building them, but also to set this information in a context that recognizes the multiple influences wbich h� shaped that design. Constructed by a nation of immigrants, beginning with the earliest Spaniards who arrived among the indigenous peoples of Florida to set-tle Saint Augustine in 1565, America s architecture, like its culture, has been configured in important ways by the traditions, customs, and religious practices of the lands from which th� immigrant tides came, by the varied physical landscapes in which they settled, by the peoples whom they found on their arrivai, and by the process of Americanization itself. ISBN 9780393730296