Architecture and Empire in Jamaica Louis P. Nelson
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- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication date:
- 29 Mar 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780300211009
- Imprint:
- Yale University Press
- Dimensions:
- 324 pages: 279 x 216mm
- Illustrations:
- 52 color + 198 b-w illus.
- Sales territories:
- World
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- Architecture »
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.
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.
Louis P. Nelson is professor of architectural history and associate dean for research in the School of Architecture, University of Virginia.
"Drawing on ten years of field-based research in Jamaica, Louis P. Nelson has assembled a picture of everything from country seats to merchant stores and humbler dwellings."— Bruce Boucher, Times Literary Supplement
"a magnificent achievement, well rooted in significant research" — Graham Kent, Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society
“Impressive book [. . .] It delivers fresh ideas and unfamiliar images on every page” —James Robertson, New West Indian Guide
Won an Honorable Mention in the Architecture & Urban Planning category for the 2017 American Publishers Awards for Professional & Scholarly Excellence (PROSE).
Winner of the 2017 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize given by the Foundation for Landscape Studies.
Winner of the 2017 Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize given by the Vernacular Architecture Forum.
Winner of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians' 2017 SESAH Book Award
“Architecture and Empire in Jamaica is a tour de force of fieldwork-based scholarship but it keeps its fieldwork in service to bigger ambitions, illustrating what the built environment says about the most central social and economic issues of the era.”—Mary Corbin Sies, University of Maryland
Won an Honorable Mention in the Architecture & Urban Planning category for the 2017 American Publishers Awards for Professional & Scholarly Excellence (PROSE).
Winner of the 2017 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize given by the Foundation for Landscape Studies.
Winner of the 2017 Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize given by the Vernacular Architecture Forum.
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