Colonial Cities

Essays on Urbanism in a Colonial Context

Inbunden, Engelska, 1984

AvR.J. Ross,Gerard J. Telkamp,R. J. Ross

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TELKAMP I In a sense, cities were superfluous to the purposes of colonists. From the point of view of the colonists, the cities were therefore in some respects necessary evils, as they were parasites on the rural producers, competing with the colonists in the process of surplus extraction.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1984-12-31
Mått155 x 235 x 28 mm
Vikt528 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieComparative Studies in Overseas History
Antal sidor250
Upplaga1985
FörlagSpringer
ISBN9789024729258

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I: Introduction.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Colonial Cities: Global Pivots of Change.- II: Case Studies.- 3. Central America’s Autarkic Colonial Cities (1600–1800).- 4. Zeelandia, A Dutch Colonial City on Formosa (1624–1662).- 5. An Insane Administration and an Unsanitary Town: The Dutch East India Company and Batavia (1619–1799).- 6. Eighteenth-Century Calcutta.- 7. Cape Town (1750–1850): Synthesis in the Dialectic of Continents.- 8. Rio de Janeiro: From Colonial Town to Imperial Capital (1808–1850).- 9. A Caribbean Creole Capital: Kingston, Jamaica (1692–1938).- 10. Algiers: Colonial Metropolis (1830–1961).- 11. Saigon, or the Failure of an Ambition (1858–1945).- 12. Dakar, Ville impériale (1857–1960).- 13. Bombay: From Fishing Village to Colonial Port City (1662–1947).- III: Epilogue.- 14. The Colonial City and the Post-Colonial World.- Notes on the Contributors.