Freedom and the cage modern architecture and psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890-1914 / Leslie Topp.
| Author/creator | Topp, Leslie, 1969- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017] |
| Description | xxii, 232 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Buildings, landscapes, and societies Buildings, landscapes, and societies. ^A984171 |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016034219 |
| ISBN | 9780271077109 (cloth : alk. paper) |