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Architecture and Empire in Jamaica / Louis P. Nelson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300214352
  • 0300214359
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 720/.97292 23
LOC classification:
  • NA809
Online resources:
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Coffle, Castle, Deck, Dock -- ch. 2 Castles of Fear -- ch. 3 Heat and Hurricanes -- ch. 4 Plantations and Power -- ch. 5 Arts of Empire -- ch. 6 Merchant Stores and the Empire of Goods -- ch. 7 Jamaican Creole House -- ch. 8 Architectures of Freedom -- ch. 9 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 8, 2016).

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Coffle, Castle, Deck, Dock -- ch. 2 Castles of Fear -- ch. 3 Heat and Hurricanes -- ch. 4 Plantations and Power -- ch. 5 Arts of Empire -- ch. 6 Merchant Stores and the Empire of Goods -- ch. 7 Jamaican Creole House -- ch. 8 Architectures of Freedom -- ch. 9 Building in Britain.

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.

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