Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies. Freedom and the Cage : : Modern Architecture and Psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890–1914 / / Leslie Topp.
Spurred by ideals of individual liberty that took hold in the Western world in the late nineteenth century, psychiatrists and public officials sought to reinvent asylums as large-scale, totally designed institutions that offered a level of freedom and normality impossible in the outside world. This...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 3 color/114 b&w illustrations/1 map |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Free Institution
- Chapter 2. Regions, Nationalism, and the Asylum as a Political Project
- Chapter 3. “A White City Shimmering” The Rhetorical Heightening of Control
- Chapter 4. Utopia in Process in Vienna’s Hinterland
- Chapter 5. Spaces
- Chapter 6. Boundaries
- Conclusions and Proposals
- Appendix: New Psychiatric Hospitals Built in the Habsburg Empire After 1898
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index