Architecture and empire in Jamaica / Louis P. Nelson.

Main entry:

Nelson, Louis P., author.

Title & Author:

Architecture and empire in Jamaica / Louis P. Nelson.

Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2016]
©2016

Description:

ix, 313 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-304) and index.
Coffee, castle, deck, dock -- Castles of fear -- Heat and hurricanes -- Plantations and power -- The arts of empire -- Merchant stores and the empire of goods -- The Jamaican Creole house -- Architecture of freedom -- Building in Britain.

Summary:

"Through Creole houses and merchant stores to sugar fields and boiling houses, Jamaica played a leading role in the formation of both the early modern Atlantic world and the British Empire. Architecture and Empire in Jamaica offers the first scholarly analysis of Jamaican architecture in the long 18th century, spanning roughly from the Port Royal earthquake of 1692 to Emancipation in 1838. In this richly illustrated study, which includes hundreds of the author's own photographs and drawings, Louis P. Nelson examines surviving buildings and archival records to write a social history of architecture. Nelson begins with an overview of the architecture of the West African slave trade then moves to chapters framed around types of buildings and landscapes, including the Jamaican plantation landscape and fortified houses to the architecture of free blacks. He concludes with a consideration of Jamaican architecture in Britain. By connecting the architecture of the Caribbean first to West Africa and then to Britain, Nelson traces the flow of capital and makes explicit the material, economic, and political networks around the Atlantic."--From publisher's website.

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ISBN:

9780300211009 (hardback)
0300211007 (hardback)

Subject:

Architecture Jamaica History.
Architecture and society Jamaica History.
Architecture Jamaïque Histoire.
Architecture et société Jamaïque Histoire.
Architecture History. Jamaica.
Architecture and society History. Jamaica.
Architecture and society.
Architecture.
Jamaica History.
Jamaïque Histoire.
Jamaica.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292260
Call No.: BIB 236436
Status: Available

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