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Freedom and the cage : modern architecture and psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890-1914 / Leslie Topp.
LIBRA RC450.E8 T67 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Topp, Leslie, 1969- author.
- Series:
- Buildings, landscapes, and societies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychiatric hospitals--Europe, Central--Design and construction--History--19th century.
- Psychiatric hospitals.
- Psychiatric hospitals--Europe, Central--Design and construction--History--20th century.
- Hospital architecture--Europe, Central--History--19th century.
- Hospital architecture.
- Hospital architecture--Europe, Central--History--20th century.
- Psychiatric hospitals--Design and construction.
- History.
- Central Europe.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 232 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- "Explores the issues surrounding the architectural design of insane asylums in the late nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, including the paradox of maximizing individual freedom within an environment of involuntary confinement"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The free institution
- Regions, nationalism, and the asylum as a political project
- "A white city shimmering" : the rhetorical heightening of control
- Utopia in process in Vienna's hinterland
- Spaces
- Boundaries.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-228) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780271077109
- 0271077107
- OCLC:
- 964290571
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