Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 404 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1780 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 404 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1780 g
Reihe: European Expansion and Indigen
ISBN: 978-90-04-23116-0
Verlag: Brill
Zielgruppe
All interested in the world, European, Asian, Pacific Island and American history 1500-1800, architectural history, economic history, history of disasters, Indigenous and European contact,and imperial history.
Weitere Infos & Material
General Editor’s Preface
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction
1. The Early Modern Built Environment Globally: The State of the Field, Carole Shammas
PART I: INVESTING IN A “PERMANENT” BUILT ENVIRONMENT: JAPAN VS. ENGLAND
2. 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 EMPIRES
5. The Architecture of the Spanish Philippines and the Limits of Empire, Kiyoko Yamaguchi
6. 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 INVESTMENT
8. That fatall spott”: The Rise and Fall – and Rise and Fall Again – of Port Royal, Jamaica, Matthew Mulcahy
9. Rebuilding the City of Kings: Architecture and Civility in Late- Colonial Lima, Charles Walker
10. 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 ENVIRONMENT
11. The Built Landscape and the Conquest of Iroquoia 1750-1820, Chad Anderson
12. 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 Karskens
Concluding Remarks
Select Bibliography
Index