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Freedom and the cage : modern architecture and psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890-1914

Title: Freedom and the cage : modern architecture and psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890-1914 / Leslie Topp.
Author: Topp, Leslie, 1969-
Publication: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]

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Description

xxii, 232 pages; 26 cm.

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.

Series Statement

Buildings, landscapes, and societies ; 10

Uniform Title

Buildings, landscapes, and societies ; 10.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN

9780271077109
0271077107

LCCN

2016034219
99973899861

OCLC

ocn958371031
958371031
SCSB-8868779

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Columbia University Libraries