Urban Space as Heritage in Late Colonial Cuba : Classicism and Dissonance on the Plaza de Armas of Havana, 1754-1828 /

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According to national legend, Havana, Cuba, was founded under the shade of a ceiba tree whose branches sheltered the island's first Catholic mass and meeting of the town council (cabildo) in 1519. The founding site was first memorialized in 1754 by the erection of a baroque monument in Havana&#...

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Main Author: Niell, Paul B., 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Cultural property.
Architecture, Colonial.
Architecture and society.
HISTORY > Caribbean & West Indies > Cuba.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Public, Commercial & Industrial.
Architecture et societe > Cuba > La Havane > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Architecture et societe > Cuba > La Havane > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Architecture coloniale > Cuba > La Havane.
Architecture and society > Cuba > Havana > History > 19th century.
Architecture and society > Cuba > Havana > History > 18th century.
Cultural property > Cuba > Havana.
Architecture, Colonial > Cuba > Havana.
Cuba > Havana > Plaza de Armas.
Cuba > Havana.
Plaza de Armas (Havana, Cuba) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Plaza de Armas and spatial reform
  • Classicism and reformed subjectivity
  • Fashioning heritage on the colonial Plaza de Armas
  • The dissonance of colonial heritage
  • Sugar, slavery, and disinheritance.

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