| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Series |
European expansion and indigenous response ; v. 11 |
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European expansion and indigenous response ; v. 11.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
General Editor's Preface; List of Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; Introduction; Chapter One The Early Modern Built Environment Globally: The State of the Field; Part One Investing in a "Permanent" Built Environment: Japan versus England; Chapter Two Property in Two Fire Regimes: From Edo to Tokyo; Chapter Three The Impact of Fire and Fire Insurance on Eighteenth-Century English Town Buildings and their Populations; Chapter Four Permanence and Impermanence in Housing Provision for the Eighteenth-Century Rural Poor in England. |
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Part Two Investment Abroad by the Emissaries of European EmpiresChapter Five The Architecture of the Spanish Philippines and the Limits of Empire; Chapter Six A Shaky Welcome: Seismic Risk and Mission Building on the Pacific Coast 1700-1830; Chapter Seven Dwelling Factors: Western Merchants in Canton; Part Three Settler Society Investment; Chapter Eight "that fatall spott": The Rise and Fall -- and Rise and Fall Again -- of Port Royal, Jamaica; Chapter Nine Rebuilding the City of Kings: Architecture and Civility in Late-Colonial Lima. |
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Chapter Ten The Ambition for an All Brick City: Elites, Builders and the Growth of Eighteenth-Century Charleston, South CarolinaPart Four Settlers, Indigenous Societies and Control of the Built Environment; Chapter Eleven The Built Landscape and the Conquest of Iroquoia, 1750-1820; Chapter Twelve The Built Environment of Polynesian and Micronesian Stratified Societies in the Early Contact Period; Chapter Thirteen Naked Possession: Building and the Politics of Legitimate Occupancy in Early New South Wales, Australia; Concluding Remarks; Select Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
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 globally. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Architecture -- History.
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Buildings -- Social aspects -- History.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Criticism.
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ARCHITECTURE -- History -- General.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Regional.
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Architecture. (OCoLC)fst00813346
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Shammas, Carole.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Investing in the early modern built environment. Boston : Brill, 2012 9789004231160 (DLC) 2012018567 (OCoLC)793726668 |
| ISBN |
9789004231191 (electronic book) |
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9004231196 (electronic book) |
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9789004231160 |
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9004231161 |
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