Dairy queens : the politics of pastoral architecture from Catherine de' Medici to Marie-Antoinette / Meredith Martin.

Though Meredith Martin is primarily an art historian, this book goes way beyond art history. It examines "pleasure dairies," built by the French aristocracy to be sites of leisure, healing, and simple luxury, from the vantage point of cultural studies as well as social and political histor...

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Main Author: Martin, Meredith (Meredith S.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
Series:Harvard historical studies ; v. 176.
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