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From hacienda to bungalow :

by Lufkin Reeve, Agnesa
Published by : University of New Mexico Press (Albuquerque, New Mexico) Physical details: 223 p ISBN:0826310222. Year: 1988
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What do houses tell us about the people who built or remodeled them? Adobe carefully painted to make it look like brick says as much about Anglo culture and presence in New Mexico from 1850 to 1912 as does any political history of those years. This study of domestic architecture, though, is more than a regional one; it addresses issues basic to an understanding of how one culture transports its social mores, cultural values, and material goods to a frontier where they can take hold

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