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Architecture and empire in Jamaica /

"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 lo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nelson, Louis P. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Coffee, castle, deck, dock
  • Castles of fear
  • Heat and hurricanes
  • Plantations and power
  • The arts of empire
  • Merchant stores and the empire of goods
  • The Jamaican Creole house
  • Architecture of freedom
  • Building in Britain.