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  • Crafting Lives
    Catherine W. Bishir
    From the colonial period onward, black artisans in southern cities — thousands of free and enslaved carpenters, coopers, dressmakers, blacksmiths, saddlers, shoemakers, bricklayers, shipwrights, cabinetmakers, tailors, and others — played vital roles in their communities. Yet only a very few black craftspeople have gained popular and scholarly attention. Catherine W. Bishir rem...
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    44,12 €

  • North Carolina Architecture
    Catherine W. Bishir / Catherine WBishir
    This award-winning, lavishly illustrated history displays the wide range of North Carolina’s architectural heritage, from colonial times to the beginning of World War II. North Carolina Architecture addresses the state’s grand public and private buildings that have become familiar landmarks, but it also focuses on the quieter beauty of more common structures: farmhouses, barns,...
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    44,32 €

  • A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Piedmont North Carolina
    Catherine W. Bishir / Michael T. Southern
    Central North Carolina boasts a rich and varied architectural landscape — from the early plantation houses and farms of its northeastern reaches, to the red brick textile mills and tobacco factories that line railroads across the region, to the glamorous New South skyscrapers of downtown Charlotte.This richly illustrated guide offers a fascinating look at the Piedmont’s histori...
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    49,70 €

  • A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Western North Carolina
    Catherine W. Bishir / Catherine WBishir / Jennifer F. Martin / Jennifer FMartin / Michael T. Southern / Michael TSouthern
    This portable field guide to the historic architecture of western North Carolina covers 1,200 historic buildings in 25 counties in the foothills and mountains. It introduces readers to the region’s rich and diverse architectural heritage — from the log farmstead to the opulent mountain retreat, and from ancient earthen mounds of the Cherokee to twentieth-century hydroelectric d...
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    48,99 €

  • A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Eastern North Carolina
    Catherine W. Bishir / Catherine WBishir / Michael T. Southern / Michael TSouthern
    Eastern North Carolina boasts some of the oldest and most distinctive architecture in the state, from colonial churches and antebellum plantation houses to the imperiled lighthouses of the late nineteenth century. The more recent history of this predominantly agricultural region includes landscapes of small farmsteads, country churches, factories, tobacco barns, quiet maritime ...
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    48,95 €