Architecture and Statecraft: Charles of Bourbon's Naples, 1734 1759

by Robin L Thomas and Robin L. Thomas

The eighteenth century was a golden age of public building. Governments constructed theaters, museums, hospices, asylums, and marketplaces to forge a new type of city, one that is recognizably modern. Yet the dawn of this urban development remains obscure. In Architecture and Statecraft, Robin Thomasseeks to explain the origins of the modern capital by examining one of the earliest of these transformed cities. In 1737 King Charles...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271056398
• ISBN13: 9780271056395
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.5" x 10.3"