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About Architecture And Empire In Jamaica
Product Description 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 long 18th century, spanning roughly from the Port Royal earthquake of 1692 to Emancipation in 1838. In this richly illustrated study, which includes hundreds of the author’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 types 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 and then to Britain, Nelson traces the flow of capital and makes explicit the material, economic, and political networks around the Atlantic. Review Won an Honorable Mention in the Architecture & Urban Planning category for the 2017 American Publishers Awards for Professional & Scholarly Excellence (PROSE). (PROSE PROSE 2017-02-03) Winner of the 2017 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize given by the Foundation for Landscape Studies. (John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize Foundation for Landscape Studies 2017-02-03) Winner of the 2017 Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize given by the Vernacular Architecture Forum. (Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize Vernacular Architecture Forum 2017-05-15) Book Description This important and original study of 18th-century Jamaican architecture, from creole houses to sugar refineries, reveals the island’s impact on the formation of both the modern Atlantic world and the British Empire. About the Author Louis P. Nelson is professor of architectural history and associate dean for research in the School of Architecture, University of Virginia.
