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Architectures of Europe: the 19th century: General resources

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Aquilino, Marie Jeannine, “Painted promises: the politics of public art in late nineteenth-century France,” The Art Bulletin, December 1993, p. 697-712 (PDF via Jstor)

Avery, Derek, Georgian & Regency architecture, Chaucer, NA966.5.G45A94 2003

Beckson, Karl, London in the 1890s: a cultural history, W. W. Norton, PR468.D43B43 1992

Benjamin, Walter, “Paris: Capital of the Nineteenth Century, Perspecta, v. 12, 1969, p. 165-172 (PDF via Jstor) JStor.org.

Bergdoll, Barry, Karl Friedrich Schinkel: an architecture for Prussia, Rizzoli, NA1088.S3B38 1994

Bremner, G. Alex, “Architecture, symbolism, and the ideal of empire in Late Victorian Britain, 1887-93,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 2003, p. 50-73 (PDF via Jstor)

Briggs, Asa, Victorian Cities, Harper & Row, HT133.B7 1993

Brumfield, William Craft, The origins of modernism in Russian architecture, University of California Press, NA1187.B78 1991

Colquhoun, Kate, Busiest man in England: a life of Joseph Paxton, gardener, architect & Victorian visionary, David R. Godine, Publisher, DA565.P18C65 2006

Dixon, Roger, Victorian Architecture, Oxford University Press, NA967.D59 1978

Dolan, Therese, “The Empress's new clothes: fashion and politics in Second Empire France,” Woman's Art Journal, Spring/Summer 1994, p. 22-28 (PDF via Jstor)

Fox, Celina, London: World city, 1800-1840, Yale University Press, DA683.L88 1992

Hall, Michael, “What do Victorian churches mean? Symbolism and sacramentalism in Anglican church architecture, 1850-1870,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 2000, p. 78-95 (PDF via Jstor)

Hope, Thomas, Household furniture and interior decoration: classic style book of the Regency period, Dover, NK2135.H7M8 1971

Karp, Ben, Victorian ornamental carpentry, Dover, NA3503.7.K372 1981

Kloos, Maarten, Housing after Napoleon, Architectura & Natura Press, NA497.N4H6 1992

Kornwolf, James D., “High Victorian Gothic; or, the dilemma of style in modern architecture,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 1975, p. 37-47 (PDF via Jstor)

Mead, Christopher, “Urban contingency and the problem of representation in Second Empire Paris,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, June 1995, p. 138-174 (PDF via Jstor)

O'Connell, Lauren M., “A Rational, national architecture: Viollet-le-Duc's modest proposal for Russia,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 1993, p. 436-452 (PDF via Jstor)

Port, M. H., “A Regime for public buildings: experiments in the Office of Works, 1869-75,” Architectural History, 1984, p. 74-85 (PDF via Jstor)

Salmon, Frank, “British architects, Italian fine arts academies and the foundation of the RIBA, 1816-43,” Architectural History, 1996, p. 77-113 (PDF via Jstor)

Salmon, Frank, “Storming the Campo Vaccino: British architects and the antique buildings of Rome after Waterloo,” Architectural History, 1995, p. 146-175 (PDF via Jstor)

Schezen, Roberto, Vienna 1850-1930, architecture, Rizzoli, NA1010.V5S34 1992

Summerson, John, Victorian architecture in England; four studies in evaluation, Columbia University Press, NA645.S9 1971

Van Der Plaat, Deborah, “William Lethaby's architecture, mysticism and myth and its debt to Victorian mythography,” Architectural History, 2002, p. 363-385 (PDF via Jstor)

Wittman, Richard, “Félix Duban's didactic restoration of the Château de Blois: a history of France in stone,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 1996, p. 412-434 (PDF via Jstor)

The Aesthetic movement,” The Journal of the Decorative Arts Society 1850 - the Present, #34, 2010 (Theme issue, PDFs are available via Jstor)

Anderson, Anne. " ‘Fearful consequences . . . of living up to one's teapot’: men, women, and "Cultchah" in the English Aesthetic Movement c. 1870–1900," Victorian Literature and Culture, #1, 2009, p. 219-254 (PDFs via Jstor)

Burke, Doreen Bolger, et al., In pursuit of beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic movement, Rizzoli, N6510.5.E25I5 1986

Helmreich, Anne. "Body and soul: the conundrum of the Aesthetic garden,Garden History, #2, 2008, p. 273-388 (PDF via Jstor)

McClaugherty, “Household art: creating the artistic home, 1868-1893,” Winterthur Portfolio, Spring 1983, p. 1-26 (PDF via Jstor)

Banham, Reyner, Theory and design in the first machine age, Praeger, NA680.B25 1980

Bergdoll, Barry, "Of Crystals, cells, and strata: natural history and debates on the form of a new architecture in the nineteenth century," Architectural History, 2007, p. 1-29 (PDF via Jstor)

Harrison, Charles, et al., Art in Theory 1815-1900, Blackwell, N6450.A779 1998

Hill, Rosemary, “Reformation to millennium: Pugin's Contrasts in the history of English thought,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 1999, p. 26-41 (PDF via Jstor)

Hübsch, Heinrich, In what style should we build? : the German debate on architectural style, Getty, NA2500.I5 1992

Kaufmann, Edgar, “Nineteenth-century design,” Perspecta, v. 6, 1960, p. 56-67 (PDF via Jstor)

Kaufman, Edward N., “Architectural representation in Victorian England,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 1987, p. 30-38 (PDF via Jstor)

Keyser, Barbara Whitney, “Ornament as idea: indirect imitation of nature in the design reform movement,” Journal of Design History, # 2, 1998, p. 127-144 (PDF via Jstor)

Olin, Margaret, “Self-representation: resemblance and convention in two nineteenth-century theories of architecture and the decorative arts,” Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, # 3, 1986, p. 376-397 (PDF via Jstor)

Schinkel, Karl Friedrich, The English journey: journal of a visit to France and Britain in 1826, Yale University Press, NA1088.S3 A35 1993

Sisa, József, “Joseph Hoffer and the study of ancient architecture,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 1990, p. 430-439 (PDF via Jstor)

Watkin, David, Morality and architecture: the development of a theme in architectural history and theory from the Gothic revival to the modern movement, Clarendon Press, NA645.5.E25W37

 

RUSKIN

Ballantyne, Andrew, John Ruskin, Reaktion Books, 2015 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Conner, Patrick R. M., “Pugin and Ruskin,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, v. 41, 1978, p. 344-350 (PDF via Jstor)

Hunt, John Dixon, “Ruskin: the design of nature and the transcription of its manuscript,Assemblage, #32, 1997, p. 12-21 (PDF via Jstor)

Macarthur, John, “The Heartlessness of the picturesque: sympathy and disgust in Ruskin's aesthetics,” Assemblage, #32, 1997, p. 126-141 (PDF via Jstor)

Ruskin, John, The Seven lamps of architecture, John W. Lovell, NA2550.R75 1989

Ruskin, John, The Stones of Venice, Dover, NA1121.V4R7 2005 volumes 1-3

Tambling, Jeremy, "Interrupted traffic: reading Ruskin," The Modern Language Review, #1, 2010, p. 53-68 (PDF via Jstor)

Teukolsky, Rachel. "Modernist Ruskin, Victorian Baudelaire: revisioning nineteenth-century aesthetics," PMLA, #3, 2007, p. 711-727 (PDF via Jstor)

Unrau, John, Looking at architecture with Ruskin, University of Toronto Press, NA2760.U57

The Works of John Ruskin (the complete 1912 “Library Edition” is available in PDFs from the Ruskin Library, Lancaster University)

SEMPER

Cache, Bernard, “Gottfried Semper: stereotomy, biology, and geometry,” Perspecta, v. 33, 2002, p. 80-87 (PDF via Jstor)

Herrmann, Wolfgang, Gottfried Semper: in search of architecture, MIT Press, NA1088.S48H47 1984

Hvattum, “Gottfried Semper: between poetics and practical aesthetics,” Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, # 4, 2001, p. 537-546 (PDF via Jstor)

Mallgrave, Harry Francis, Gottfried Semper: architect of the nineteenth century, Yale University Press, NA1353.S45M36 1996

Semper, Gottfried, Style in the technical and tectonic arts, or, Practical aesthetics, Getty Research Institute, Office NA2500.S46213 2004

VIOLLET-LE-DUC

Bressani, “Notes on Viollet-le-Duc's philosophy of history: dialectics and technology,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 1989, p. 327-350 (PDF via Jstor)

Bressani, Martin, "Prosthetic fantasies of the first Machine Age: Viollet-le-Duc's iron architecture," AA Files, #68, 2014, p. 43-49 (PDF via Jstor)

Jordan, Alyce A., “Rationalizing the narrative: theory and practice in the nineteenth-century restoration of the windows of the Sainte-Chapelle,” Gesta, #2, 1998, p. 192-200 (PDF via Jstor)

Murphy, Kevin D., Memory and modernity: Viollet-le-Duc at Vézelay, Pennsylvania State University Press, NA1053.V7M87 2000

Vinegar, Aron, "Viollet-le-Duc and restoration in the future anterior," Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory, and Criticism, #2, 2006, p. 54-65 (PDF via Jstor)

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, Discourses on Architecture, Grove Press, NA2520.V7 1959 volumes 1-2

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel & M. F. Hearn, The architectural theory of Viollet-le-Duc: readings and commentary, MIT Press, NA1053.V7V47 1990

Cumming, Elizabeth, The Arts and crafts movement, Thames & Hudson, NK1140.C85 1991

Davey, Peter, Arts and crafts architecture, Rizzoli, NA967.D37 1995

Dunlop, Beth, Arts & crafts houses, Phaidon, NA3485.A77 1999 volumes 1-2

Kaplan, Wendy, The Arts and crafts movement in Europe and America: design for the modern world 1880-1920, Thames & Hudson, NK1140.K37 2004

Kaplan, Wendy, et al, Art That Is Life: the Arts & Crafts Movement in America 1875-1920, Little, Brown, NK1141.K37 1987

Kornwolf, James D., M.H. Baillie Scott and the arts and crafts movement; pioneers of modern design, Johns Hopkins University Press, NA997.S42 K6

Meister, Maureen, Arts and Crafts architecture, University Press of New England, 2014 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Royka, Paul A., Mission furniture: furniture of the American arts and crafts movement, Schiffer, NK2407.R69 1997

Triggs, Oscar Lovell, The Arts & Crafts movement, Parkstone International, 2014 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

“The Beaux Arts,” Architectural Design Profiles, NA2310.B34 1978

Clausen, Meredith L., "The École des Beaux-Arts: toward a gendered history." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians , #2, 2010, p. 153-161 (PDF via Jstor)

Cret, Paul P., “The École des Beaux-Arts and architectural education,” Journal of the American Society of Architectural Historians, April 1941, p. 3-15 (PDF via Jstor)

Drexler, Arthur, The Architecture of the École des beaux-arts, Museum of Modern Art, NA1047.5.E34A69 1977

Egbert, Donald Drew & David van Zanten, The Beaux-Arts tradition in French architecture, Princeton University Press, NA2320.F8P373 1980

Fromonot, Françoise, & Rose Julie, "The Beaux-Arts: model, monster ... phoenix?" Log, #13/14, 2008, p. 41-52 (PDF via Jstor)

Gulgonen, Ahmet & Francois Laisney, “Contextual approaches to typology at the École des Beaux-Arts,” Journal of Architectural Education, Winter 1982, p. 26-28 (PDF via Jstor)

Harbeson, John F., The study of architectural design, with special reference to the program of the Beaux-arts institute of design, The Pencil Points Press, NA2750.H3 1926

Middleton, Robin, The Beaux-arts and nineteenth-century French architecture, MIT Press, NA2310.F8E33 1982

Van Zanten, David, “The Architecture of the Beaux-Arts,” Journal of Architectural Education, November 1975, p. 16-17 (PDF via Jstor)

Addis, William, “The harmony of theory and practice: 1800-1860,” in Building: 3000 years of design engineering and construction, Phaidon, TH15.A33 2007

Anderson, Marvin J, "The architectural education of nineteenth-century American engineers: Dennis Hart Mahan at West Point," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, #2, 2008, p. 222-247 (PDF via Jstor)

Brucemann, Robert & Donald Prowler, “19th Century mechanical system designs,” Journal of Architectural Education, February 1977, p. 11-15 (PDF via Jstor)

Cadbury, Deborah, Dreams of iron and steel : seven wonders of the nineteenth century, from the building of the London sewers to the Panama Canal, Fourth Estate, TA19.C33 2004

Curtis, John O., “The Introduction of the circular saw in the early 19th century,” Bulletin of the Association for Preservation Technology, # 2, 1973, p. 162-189 (PDF via Jstor)

Kranakis, Ed, Constructing a bridge: an exploration of engineering culture, design, and research in nineteenth-century France and America, MIT Press, TG71.K73 1997

Lawrence, Jeanne Catherine, "Steel frame architecture versus the London building regulations: Selfridges, the Ritz, and American technology," Construction History, #6, 1990, p. 23-46 (PDF via Jstor)

Leslie, Thomas, "’Built mostly of itself’: the Chicago brick Industry and the masonry skyscraper in the late 19th  century," Construction History , #25, 2010, p. 69-84 (PDF via Jstor)

Leslie, Thomas, "Built like bridges: iron, steel, and rivets in the nineteenth-century skyscraper," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 69., #2, 2010, p. 234-261 (PDF via Jstor)

Beckson, Karl, London in the 1890s: a cultural history, W. W. Norton, PR468.D43B43 1992

Briggs, Asa, Victorian Cities, Harper & Row, HT133.B7 1993

Clark, Frank, “Nineteenth-century public parks from 1830,” Garden History, Summer 1973, p. 31-41 (PDF via Jstor)

Collins, George R., Camillo Sitte: the birth of modern city planning, Random House, NA9030.S63 C6 1986

Cordua, Christian Hermansen, Manifestoes and transformations in the early modernist city, Ashgate, 2012 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Domosh, Mona, Invented cities: the creation of landscape in nineteenth-century New York & Boston, Yale University Press, HT168.N5 D66 1996 

Fox, Celina, London: World city, 1800-1840, Yale University Press, DA683.L88 1992

Herscher, Andrew, "Städtebau as imperial culture: Camillo Sitte's urban plan for Ljubljana,"Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, #2, 2003, p. 212-227 (PDF via Jstor)

Jordan, David P., Transforming Paris : the life and labors of Baron Haussmann, Free Press, HT178.F72P345 1996

Melosi, Martin V., Garbage in the cities: refuse, reform and the environment 1880-1980, Texas A & M University Press, TD893.M44 1981

Olsen, Donald J., The city as a work of art: London, Paris, Vienna, Yale University Press, NA970.O47 1986

Pinkney, David H., Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris, Princeton University Press, DC733.P56 1958

Saalman, Howard, Haussmann: Paris transformed, G. Braziller, HT169.F72P367 1971

Weeks, Willet, The Man who made Paris Paris, London House, DC280.5.H3W4 2000

Wolf, Peter,” City structuring and social sense in 19th and 20th century urbanism,” Perspecta, v. 13, 1971, p. 221-233 (PDF via Jstor)

Al Sayyad, Nezar, Forms of dominance on the architecture and urbanism of the colonial enterprise, Avebury, GF51.E87 v. 5 

Ashcroft, Bill, et al., Post-colonial studies reader, Routledge, 1994 (ebook via Ebrary)

Benjamin, Roger, Orientalism: Delacroix to Klee, Art Gallery of New South Wales, N8217.E88B46 1997

Benjamin, Roger, Orientalist aesthetics: art, colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930, University of California Press, ND1460.E95B46 2003

Chaichian, Mohammed, Empires and walls: globalization, migration, and colonial domination, Brill, 2013 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Chattopadhyay, Swati, “Blurring boundaries: the limits of ‘White Town’ in colonial Calcutta,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, June 2000, p. 154-179 (PDF via Jstor)

Doyle, Michael W., Empires, Cornell University Press, JC359 .D69 1986

Guaita, Ovidio, On distant shores: colonial houses around the world, Monacelli Press, NA7125 .G8313 1999

Jessup, Helen, “Dutch architectural visions of the Indonesian tradition,” Muqarnas, v. 3, 1985, p. 138-161 (PDF via Jstor)

Kuroishi, Izumi & Matthew Carmona, Design and the built environment: constructing the colonized land, Routledge, 2014 (ebook via Ebrary)

Morris, Jan, Architecture of the British Empire, Vendome Press, NA964.A73 1986

Porter, Andrew, Oxford history of the British empire, volume III : the nineteenth century, Oxford University Press, 2001 (ebook via ProQuest ebrary)

Said, Edward, Orientalism, Vintage Books, DS12.S24 1979

Allen, Polly Wynn, Building domestic liberty: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's architectural feminism, University of Massachusetts Press, PS1744.G57Z54 1988

Apter, Emily, "Cabinet secrets: fetishism, prostitution, and the fin de siècle interior," Assemblage, #9, 1989, p. 7-19 (PDF via Jstor)

Brown, Julia Prewitt, The Bourgeois interior, University of Virginia Press, 2012 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary. Web. 30 August 2016.

Edwards, Clive, “Home Is where the art is: women, handicrafts and home improvements 1750-1900,” Journal of Design History, #1, 2006, p. 11-21 (PDF via Jstor)

Floyd, Janet, Domestic space: reading the nineteenth-century interior, Manchester University Press, HQ613.D66 1999 

Folbre, Nancy, “The Unproductive housewife: her evolution in nineteenth-century economic thought,” Spring 1991, p. 463-484 PDF via Jstor)

Girouard, Mark, The Victorian country house, Yale University Press, NA7562.G5 1979

Marcus, Sharon, Apartment stories: city and home in nineteenth-century Paris and London, University of California Press, HD7287.6.F82P375 1999 

Muthesius, Stefan, “The Altdeutsche Zimmer, or Cosiness in plain pine: an 1870s Munich contribution to the definition of interior design,” Journal of Design History, #4, 2003, p. 269-290 (PDF via Jstor)

Ponsonby, Margaret, “Ideals, reality and meaning: homemaking in England in the first half of the nineteenth century,” Journal of Design History, # 3, 2003, p. 201-214 (PDF via Jstor)

Seale, William, The tasteful interlude: American interiors through the camera's eye, 1860-1917, Praeger, NK2003.5.S42 1981

Wichmann, Siegfried, Japonisme: the Japanese influence on western art in the 19th and 20th centuries, Harmony Books N6447.W5313 1981

Çelik, Zeynep & Leila Kinney, “Ethnography and exhibitionism at the Expositions Universelles,” Assemblage, #13, 1999, p. 34-59 (PDF via Jstor)

Çelik, Zeynep, Displaying the Orient: architecture of Islam at nineteenth-century world's fairs, University of California Press, NA957.C44 1992

Evans, Almus Pratt, “Exposition architecture: 1893 versus 1933,” Parnassus, May, 1933, p. 17-22 (PDF via Jstor)

Hervé, Lucien, The Eiffel Tower, Princeton Architectural Press, DC790.T68H47 2003

Hoffmann, Donald, “Clear span rivalry: the World's Fairs of 1889-1893,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 1970, p. 48-50 (PDF via Jstor)

Jay, Robert, “Taller than Eiffel's Tower: the London and Chicago tower projects, 1889-1894,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, June 1987, p. 145-156 (PDF via Jstor)

Karlowicz, Titus M., “Notes on the Columbian Exposition's manufactures and liberal arts building,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, October 1974, p. 214-218 (PDF via Jstor)

Lewis, Arnold, An Early encounter with tomorrow: Europeans, Chicago's Loop, and the World's Columbian Exposition, University of Illinois Press, NA735.C4L49 1997

McKean, John, Crystal Palace: Joseph Paxton & Charles Fox, Phaidon, NA6750.L6M34 1994

Musée d'Orsay, 1889: la Tour Eiffel et l'exposition, Editions de la Réunion des Musées nationaux, DC790.T68E544 1989

Opening of the Crystal Palace, June 10th, 1854,” The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular, June 15, 1854, p. 99-100 (PDF via Jstor)

Piggott, J.R., Palace of the people: the Crystal Palace at Sydenham 1854-1936, University of Wisconsin Press, NA6750.L6P54 2004

Stamper, John W., “The Industry Palace of the 1873 World's Fair: Karl von Hasenauer, John Scott Russell, and new technology in nineteenth-century Vienna,” Architectural History, 2004, p. 227-250 (PDF via Jstor)

Tunnard, Christopher, “A City called Beautiful,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March/May 1950, p. 31-36 (PDF via Jstor)

19th-Century Music (PDFs available from 1977, with a 3-year delay, via Jstor)

Banks, Simon, "Wagner, Richard," Oxford Art Online

Bonds, Mark Evan, Music as thought: listening to the symphony in the age of Beethoven, Princeton University Press, 2009 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Budden, Julian, Verdi, Oxford University Press, 2014 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Faulk, Barry J., Music Hall and modernity: the late-Victorian discovery of popular culture, Ohio University Press, 2004 (ebook via ProQuest ebrary)

The Gilbert & Sullivan Archive (Boise State University)

Huebner, Steven, “Opera audiences in Paris 1830-1870,” Music & Letters, May 1989, p. 206-225 (PDF via Jstor)

Max Graf & Arthur Mendel, “The Death of a music city (Vienna: 1600-1938)The Musical Quarterly, January 1940, p. 8-18 (PDF via Jstor)

Morrow, Mary Sue, “Of Unity and passion: the aesthetics of concert criticism in early nineteenth-century Vienna,” 19th-Century Music, Spring 1990, p. 193-206 (PDF via Jstor)

Zilczer, Judith, “Color music: synaesthesia and nineteenth-century sources for abstract art,” Artibus et Historiae, #16, 1987, p. 101-126 (PDF via Jstor)

Bullen, J.B., Byzantium rediscovered, Phaidon, N6447.B797 2003

Clark, Kenneth, The Gothic revival, John Murray, NA610.C5 1962

Eastlake, Charles L., A history of the Gothic revival, Humanities Press, NA610.E77 1970

Giouard, Mark, Sweetness and light: the Queen Anne movement, 1860-1900, Clarendon Press, NA630.G57 1984

Hall, Michael, “The Rise of refinement: G. F. Bodley's All Saints, Cambridge, and the return to English models in Gothic architecture of the 1860s,” Architectural History, 1993, p. 103-126 (PDF via Jstor)

Mango, Cyril, “Byzantinism and Romantic Hellenism,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, v. 28, 1965, p. 29-43 (PDF via Jstor)

Medieval America,” American Literary History, Winter 2010 (Theme issue, PDFs available via Jstor)

Omoto, Sadayoshi, “The Queen Anne style and architectural criticism,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 1964, p. 29-37 (PDF via Jstor)

Perusse, Lyle F., “The Gothic revival in California, 1850-1890,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, October 1955, p. 15-22 (PDF via Jstor)

Sisa, József, “Neo-Gothic architecture and restoration of historic buildings in central Europe: Friedrich Schmidt and his school,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, June 2002, p. 170-187 (PDF via Jstor)

Stanton, Phoebe B., “Pugin: principles of design versus revivalism,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, October 1954, p. 20-25 (PDF via Jstor)

Thomas, Nancy, et al., The American discovery of ancient Egypt, LACMA, DT58.9.L67 1995

Tavernor, Robert, Palladio and Palladianism, Thames and Hudson, NA1123.P2 T38 1991

Biggs, Lindy, Rational factory: architecture, technology, and work in America's age of mass production, Johns Hopkins University Press, TS178.B54 1996

Brett, David, “Drawing and the ideology of industrialization,” Design Issues, Autumn 1986, p. 59-72 (PDF via Jstor)

Briggs, Asa, Iron Bridge to Crystal Palace: impact and images of the Industrial Revolution, Thames & Hudson, HC254.5.B854 1979

Cadbury, Deborah, Dreams of iron and steel: seven wonders of the nineteenth century, Fourth Estate, TA19.C33 2004

Carlyle, Thomas, “Signs of the times,” Edinburgh Review, June 1829 (Full text via The Victorian Web)

Charney, Leo, Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life, University of California Press, PN1995.9.S6C47 1995

Dickens, Charles, Hard Times, Book 1, Chapter 1, 1854 (Full text via Project Gutenberg)

Engels, Frederick, The Conditions of the Working Class in England, 1845 (Full text via the Marx/Engels Internet Archive)

First Sounds (“strives to make humanity's earliest sound recordings available to all”)

Foshay, Ella M., “Charles Darwin and the development of American flower imagery,” Winterthur Portfolio, Winter 1980, p. 299-314 (PDF via Jstor)

Gaskell, Elizabeth, North and South, Chapter 7, “New scenes and faces,” 1855 (Gaskell’s “Milton” is based on Manchester, where she lived. Full text via Project Gutenberg)

Gernsheim, Helmut, The Origins of photography, Thames & Hudson, TR15.G372 1982

Green, Joseph, “The Lesson of the telephone,” The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular, February 1, 1878, p. 74-76 (PDF via Jstor)

Herbert, Stephen, et al, Who’s who of Victorian cinema

Hughes, Thomas P., Networks of power: electrification in Western society, 1880-1930, Johns Hopkins University Press, TK1005.H83 1983

Koerte, Arnold, Two railway bridges of an era: Firth of Forth and Firth of Tay, Birkhäuser, TG64.S68K64 1992

Levine, Neil, "The Template of photography in nineteenth-century architectural representation," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, #3, 2012, p. 306-331 (PDF via Jstor)

Luxenberg, Alisa, “Creating désastres: Andrieu's photographs of urban ruins in the Paris of 1871,” The Art Bulletin, March 1998, p. 113-137 (PDF via Jstor)

MacDougall, Robert, The people's network: the political economy of the telephone in the Gilded Age, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Mimi Sherman, “A look at nineteenth-century lighting: lighting devices from the Merchant's House Museum,” APT Bulletin, #1, 2000, p. 37-43 (PDF via Jstor)

New Lanark World Heritage Site

Revill, George, Railway, Reaktion Books, 2013 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Ridley, Hugh, Darwin becomes art: aesthetic vision in the wake of Darwin, Editions Rodopi, 2014 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Robinson, Cervin, Architecture transformed: a history of the photography of buildings from 1839 to the present, MIT Press, TR659.R624 1987

Schivelbusch, Wolfgang, The Railway journey: the industrialization of time and space in the nineteenth century, University of California Press, 2014 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Schmidt Horning, Susan, Chasing sound: technology, culture, and the art of studio recording from Edison to the LP, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Standage, Tom, The Victorian Internet, Walker & Co., HD7631.S677 1998

Stefoff, Rebecca, Charles Darwin and the evolution revolution, Oxford University Press, QH31.D282 1996

Stilgoe, John R., Metropolitan corridor: railroads and the American scene, Yale University Press, HE2751.S68 1983

Tagg, John, “God's sanitary law,” in The burden of representation: essays on photographies and histories, University of Massachusetts Press, TR183.T34 1988

Voss, Julia, Darwin's pictures: views of evolutionary theory, 1837-1874, Yale University Press, 2010 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Wolmar, Christian, Blood, iron, and gold: how the railways transformed the world, PublicAffairs, 2010 (ebook via ProQuest ebrary)

Wood Cordulack, Shelley, “A Franco-American battle of beams: electricity and the selling of modernity,” Journal of Design History, # 2, 2005, p. 147-166 (PDF via Jstor)

Yanni, Carla, “Divine display or secular science: defining nature at the Natural History Museum in London,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 1996, p. 276-299 (PDF via Jstor)

Yanni, Carla, “History and sociology of science: interrogating the spaces of knowledge,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Dec., 2005, p. 423-425 (PDF via Jstor)

Yanni, Carla, Nature's museums: Victorian science and the architecture of display, Johns Hopkins University Press, QH70.A1 Y25 1999

Albinski, Nan Bowman, “Utopia reconsidered: women novelists and nineteenth-century utopian visions,” Signs, Summer 1988, p. 830-841 (PDF via Jstor)

Beaumont, Matthew, Utopia Ltd.: ideologies of social dreaming in England 1870-1900, Brill, 2005 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Corporaal, Marguerite, et al., Literary Utopias of Cultural Communities, 1790-1910, Rodopi, 2010 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Charles Fourier Archive (Full text via the Marxists Internet Archive)

Marx/Engels selected works (“Short List for beginners” from the Marxists Internet Archive)

Marx, Karl & Jeffrey C. Isaac, Rethinking the Western tradition: the communist manifesto, Yale University Press, 2012 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

New Lanark World Heritage Site, UNESCO

Newman, Michael, Socialism: a very short introduction, Oxford University Press, 2005 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Owen, Robert, A New view of society, 1816 (Full text from Semantic Scholar)

Vidler, Anthony, “The New industrial world: the reconstruction of urban utopia in late nineteenth century France,” Perspecta, v. 13, 1971, p. 243-256 (PDF via Jstor)

Apter, Emily, "Cabinet secrets: fetishism, prostitution, and the fin de siècle interior," Assemblage, #9, 1989, p. 7-19 (PDF via Jstor)

Cooke, Peter, "Symbolism, decadence and Gustave Moreau," The Burlington Magazine, #1274, 2009, p. 312-318 (PDF via Jstor)

Palmer, Peter, "Lost paradises: music and the aesthetics of symbolism," The Musical Times, #1899, 2007, p. 37-50 (PDF via Jstor)

Pearson, Roger, Stéphane Mallarmé, Reaktion Books, 2010 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Symbolist art and literature,” Art Journal, Summer 1985 (Theme issue, PDFs available via Jstor)

Simpson, Juliet, "Nature as a musée d'art in the French fin-de siècle garden," Garden History 36., #2, 2008, p. 229-252 (PDF via Jstor)

Thain, Marion & Vadillo Ana Parejo, "’Fin-de-siècle’ renaissance: diversity, history, modernity," Victorian Literature and Culture 34., #2, 2006, p. 389-403 (PDF via Jstor)

Wilton, Andre, The Age of Rossetti, Burne-Jones & Watts: symbolism in Britain 1860-1910, Flammarion, NX543.A47 1997

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