Investing in the early modern built environment : Europeans, Asians, settlers and Indigenous societies / edited by Carole Shammas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shammas, Carole, author.

Contributor:

Shammas, Carole.

Series:

European Expansion and Indigenous Response 11.

European expansion and indigenous response ; v. 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--History.

Architecture.

Buildings--Social aspects--History.

Buildings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (430 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

1. The Early Modern Built Environment Globally: The State of the Field / Carole Shammas

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 their Populations / Robin Pearson

4. Permanence and Impermanence in Housing Provision for the Eighteenth-Century Rural Poor in England / John Broad

5. The Architecture of the Spanish Philippines and the Limits of Empire / Kiyoko Yamaguchi

6. A 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

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

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 H. Cordy

13. Naked Possession: Building and the Politics of Legitimate Occupancy in Early New South Wales, Australia / Grace Karskens

Concluding Remarks

Select Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-55122-5

9786613863676

90-04-23119-6

OCLC:

809775318

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004231191 DOI