Architecture and Empire in Jamaica

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Through Creole houses and merchant stores to sugar fields and boiling houses, Jamaica played a leading role within the formation of both the early brand new Atlantic world and the British Empire. Architecture and Empire in Jamaica offers the first scholarly analysis of Jamaican architecture within the long 18th century, spanning kind of from the Port Royal earthquake of 1692 to Emancipation in 1838. On this richly illustrated study, which incorporates hundreds of the creator’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 forms 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 after which to Britain, Nelson traces the waft of capital and makes explicit the material, economic, and political networks across the Atlantic. 
 

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