Del 11 - European Expansion and Indigenous Response

Investing in the Early Modern Built Environment

Europeans, Asians, Settlers and Indigenous Societies

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

Av Carole Shammas

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Today the bulk of tangible wealth around the globe resides in buildings and physical infrastructure rather than moveable goods. This situation was not always the case. Investing in the Early Modern Built Environment represents the first attempt to delve into the period’s enhanced architectural investment—its successes, its failures, and the conflicts it provoked. Not just cultural but clear economic and environmental reasons existed for a rejection of the new architectural agenda. Whatever its efficacy or flaws, it ultimately served as a model worldwide for cityscapes and housing well into the twentieth century.Contributors include Jordan Sand, Robin Pearson, John Broad, Kiyoko Yamaguchi, Steven W. Hackel, Susan E. Hough, Johnathan Farris, Matthew Mulcahy, Charles Walker, Emma Hart, Chad Anderson, Ross H. Cordy, Grace Karskens, and Carole Shammas.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-08-01
Mått155 x 235 x 29 mm
Vikt1 780 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEuropean Expansion and Indigenous Response
Antal sidor404
FörlagBrill
MedarbetareShammas,Carole
ISBN9789004231160

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Arkitekturhistoria inom Kultur
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Ekonomisk historia inom Ekonomi och ledarskap

General Editor’s PrefaceList of IllustrationsList of TablesList of ContributorsIntroduction 1. The Early Modern Built Environment Globally: The State of the Field, Carole ShammasPART I: INVESTING IN A “PERMANENT” BUILT ENVIRONMENT: JAPAN VS. ENGLAND2. Property in Two Fire Regimes: From Edo to Tokyo, Jordan Sand 3. The Impact of Fire and Fire Insurance on Eighteenth-Century English Town Buildings and Populations, Robin Pearson 4. Permanence and Impermanence in Housing Provision for the Eighteenth-Century Rural Poor in England, John Broad PART II: INVESTMENT ABROAD BY THE EMISSARIES OF EUROPEAN EMPIRES5. The Architecture of the Spanish Philippines and the Limits of Empire, Kiyoko Yamaguchi6. Shaky Welcome: Seismic Risk and Mission Building on the Pacific Coast 1700-1830, Steven W. Hackel and Susan E. Hough 7. Dwelling Factors: Western Merchants in Canton, Johnathan Farris PART III: SETTLER SOCIETY INVESTMENT8. That fatall spott”: The Rise and Fall – and Rise and Fall Again – of Port Royal, Jamaica, Matthew Mulcahy9. Rebuilding the City of Kings: Architecture and Civility in Late- Colonial Lima, Charles Walker10. The Ambition for an All Brick City: Elites, Builders and the Growth of Eighteenth-Century Charleston, South Carolina, Emma Hart PART IV: SETTLERS, INDIGENOUS SOCIETIES AND CONTROL OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT11. The Built Landscape and the Conquest of Iroquoia 1750-1820, Chad Anderson12. The Built Environment of Polynesian and Micronesian Stratified Societies in the Early Contact Period, Ross Cordy 13. Naked Possession: Building and the Politics of Legitimate Occupancy in Early New South Wales, Australia, Grace KarskensConcluding RemarksSelect BibliographyIndex

It is gratifying to see how the promises of scholarship are sometimes fulfilled. [...] Carol Shammas' new edited volume fulfils such a promise [...].This is a dense collection, rich in content and theoretical interest. While it is framed primarely for a dedicated readership in architectural history, it has a far wider significance. The eassays work effectively in providing intersecting views of a transformation of the built landscape that, while incomplete and fractured in its impact, constitutet an important part of what we understand of the transition of modernity.Anne Murphy, Itinerario, Vol. 38, No. 1 (2014), pp. 165-168.