Reviews for Sports in North America, a Documentary History Sports in the New Republic, 1784-1820

The average rating for Sports in North America, a Documentary History Sports in the New Republic, 1784-1820 based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-02-07 00:00:00 Daisuke Tsutsui The first volume of Templer's account of stairs and ramps deals with their history. The book is above all enlightening. It places the different stair types and their evolution in the context of wider architectural pursuits and shows them to be intertwined with even the loftier of them. By virtue of their monopoly of vertical locomotion until the twentieth century, stairs (and ramps) were related to everything else in a building. Templer explains how architects were simultaneously concerned with locomotion, construction, perception and use of stairs to produce designs that were more constrained by the architectural theory of their time than just utilitarian or aesthetic principles. This is a book every architect should read but surprisingly it's out of print. Perhaps that's the reason why it is not as widely known as it deserves - amazingly there's no mention of it in the Wikipedia lemma on stairs. Time for an ebook version?

Review # 2 was written on 2017-01-21 00:00:00 Joseph Mcmillan All about ups and downs.