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Americas Architectural Roots: Ethnic Groups That Built Americas
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America's Architectural Roots is the first book to explore the ethnic derivations of American buildings with such a broad scope. The contributions of 22 groups are highlighted in this fascinating overview that provides an important new way of looking at the buildings that surround us. Groups covered include:

Afro-Americans
Belgians
Chinese
Czechs
Danes
Dutch
English
Finns
French
German-Russians
Germans
Hawaiians
Irish
Japanese
Mexicans
Native Americans
Norwegians
Russians
Spanish
Swedes
Swiss
Ukrainians

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Introduction (Dell Upton).

Indigenous Groups.

Native Americans (Peter Nabokov and Bob Easton).

Eastern Woodlands-Great Lakes.

Southeast.

Great Plains-Plateau.

Southwest.

California.

Arctic-Northwest Coat.

Native Hawaiians (Ray Morris).

Pre-Revolutionary Immigrants.

Afro-Americans (John Michael Vlach).

Dutch (Dell Upton).

English (Cary Carson).

French (Jay D. Edwards).

Germans and Swiss (Edward A. Chappell).

Irish (Henry Glassie).

Russians (Anatole Senkevitch, Jr.).

Southeastern Spanish (Kathleen Deagan).

Southwestern Hispanics (Joe S. Graham).

19th-Century Immigrants.

Belgians (Charles F. Calkins and William G. Laatsch).

Chinese (Christopher Lee Yip).

Czechs (David Murphy).

Danes (Thomas Carter).

Finns (Matti Kaups).

German-Russians (Michael Koop).

Japanese (Ronald K. K. Lee).

Midwestern Germans ( William H. Tishler).

Norwegians (Darrell D. Henning).

Swedes (Lena A:son Palmqvist).

Ukrainians (John C. Lehr).

Contributors.

Further Reading.

Information Sources.

Index.

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