Portrait of an island : the architecture and material culture of Gorée, Sénégal, 1758-1837 /

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The once-famous trading center of Goree, Senegal, today lies in the busy harbor of the modern city of Dakar. From its beginnings as a modest outpost, Goree became one of the intersections linking African trading routes to the European Atlantic trade. Then as now, people of many nationalities poured...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hinchman, Mark (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]
Colección:Early modern cultural studies (Lincoln, Neb.)
Temas:
1700-1899
Housing > Senegal > Gorée.
Architecture and society > Senegal > Gorée.
ARCHITECTURE > Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE > Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE > Reference.
HISTORY > Africa > West.
Architecture and society.
Buildings.
Housing.
Social conditions.
Gorée (Senegal) > Buildings, structures, etc.
Gorée (Senegal) > Social conditions > 18th century.
Gorée (Senegal) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Senegal > Gorée.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The once-famous trading center of Goree, Senegal, today lies in the busy harbor of the modern city of Dakar. From its beginnings as a modest outpost, Goree became one of the intersections linking African trading routes to the European Atlantic trade. Then as now, people of many nationalities poured into the island: Dutch, English, French, Portuguese, Tukulor, and Wolof. Trading parties brought with them gold, firewood, mirrors, books, and more. They built houses of various forms, using American lumber, French roof tiles, freshly cut straw, and pulverized seashells, and furnished them in a fashion as cosmopolitan as the city itself. A work of architectural history, Portrait of an Island explores the material culture and social relations of West Africa in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Multiple features of eighteenth-century Goree--its demographic diversity; the prominence of women leaders; the phenomenon of identities in flux; and the importance of fashion and international trade--articulate its place in the construction of an early global modernity. An examination of the built and natural landscape, Portrait of an Island deciphers the material culture involved in the ever-changing relationships among male, female, rich, poor, free, and slave.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780803280915
0803280912

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