Architecture and Extraction in the Atlantic World, 1500-1850 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Peláez, Luis J. Gordo; Niell, Paul B.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection explores the landscapes of extraction as material networks that brought people, space, and labor together in harvesting raw materials, cultivating agriculture for export-level profits, and circulating raw materials and commodities in Europe, Africa, and the Americas from 1500 to 1850.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003822646
• Artikelnr.: 69451439

Autorenporträt

Luis Gordo Peláez is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art, Design and Art History at California State University, Fresno. His work examines the urban reform projects and public works agenda of the late colonial Mexican cities, particularly in Bourbon Guanajuato and the region of El Bajío. Paul Niell is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Florida State University. His research focuses on the art, architecture, and material culture of the Hispanophone Caribbean in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of contributors
Introduction: Building for Atlantic Extraction.
Luis Gordo-Peláez and Paul Niell
Chapter 1. Early Modern Mining Exchanges across Empires
Janna Israel
Chapter 2. Purchasing a Poisoned City: Indigenous Andeans and Urban Space
in Sixteenth-Century Huancavelica
Mark P. Dries
Chapter 3. New Functions of Mining Heritage in Mexico
Miguel Ángel Sorroche Cuerva
Chapter 4. The Ice House: Industry and Ritual in the Nineteenth-Century
Frozen Water Trade
Louisa Iarocci
Chapter 5. Contesting the Colonial Illu: Sealing and Social Change in
Kalaallit Architecture, 1750-1860
Kirstine Møller and Bart Pushaw
Chapter 6. From Ireland to Barbados: Architecture of Extraction in British
Colonies
Lee Morrissey
Chapter 7. Whiteness Among People of Color at Atlantic World Extraction
Sites: A Comparative Study of the Indigenous Diamond Hill and Black Melrose
Plantations
Barry L. Stiefel
Chapter 8. Absentee Architecture: Remote Building Across the British
Atlantic, c. 1800
Jonah Rowen
Chapter 9. Space, Science, and Slavery in Havana's Botanical Garden
Lee Sessions
Chapter 10. The World's Greatest Depot: West India Docks, Warehouses, and
Flexibility
Georgios Eftaxiopoulos
Chapter 11. Choice Spirits or the Alloy of Slavery: Samuel Blodget's First
Bank of the United States
Peter Minosh
Chapter 12. Castle Brew: Dreams Realized and Dreams Devastated
Courtnay Micots
Chapter 13. Architecture of Indigo Dye Extraction in the Eighteenth-Century
Atlantic Context: The Case of Charleston and Rio de Janeiro
Alexander Lima Reis
Chapter 14. From Caravans to Railroads: Trails, Architecture, and Urban
Networks in Rio Pardo's Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Landscapes of
Extraction
Rafael Augusto Silva Ferreira and Renata Baesso Pereira
Bibliography
Index