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Freedom and the Cage Modern Architecture and Psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890–1914
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Freedom and the Cage [electronic resource] : Modern Architecture and Psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890–1914 / Leslie Topp.
ISBN
0271079223
9780271079226
9780271077109 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxii, 232 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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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.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2017 Complete Supplement.
Project MUSE - 2017 History Supplement.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 26, 2019
Series
Buildings, landscapes, and societies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) 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
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