Investing in the Early Modern Built Environment

Europeans, Asians, Settlers and Indigenous Societies
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-23116-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 404 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1780 g

Reihe: European Expansion and Indigenous Response

Today the bulk of tangible wealth around the globe resides in buildings and physical infrastructure rather than moveable goods. This situation was not always the case. Investing in the Early Modern Built Environment represents the first attempt to delve into the period’s enhanced architectural investment—its successes, its failures, and the conflicts it provoked. Not just cultural but clear economic and environmental reasons existed for a rejection of the new architectural agenda. Whatever its efficacy or flaws, it ultimately served as a model worldwide for cityscapes and housing well into the twentieth century.

Zielgruppe

All interested in the world, European, Asian, Pacific Island and American history 1500-1800, architectural history, economic history, history of disasters, Indigenous and European contact,and imperial history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Shammas, Carole

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General Editor’s Preface
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction

1. The Early Modern Built Environment Globally: The State of the Field, Carole Shammas

PART I: INVESTING IN A “PERMANENT” BUILT ENVIRONMENT: JAPAN VS. ENGLAND

2. Property in Two Fire Regimes: From Edo to Tokyo, Jordan Sand
3. The Impact of Fire and Fire Insurance on Eighteenth-Century English Town Buildings and Populations, Robin Pearson
4. Permanence and Impermanence in Housing Provision for the Eighteenth-Century Rural Poor in England, John Broad

PART II: INVESTMENT ABROAD BY THE EMISSARIES OF EUROPEAN EMPIRES

5. The Architecture of the Spanish Philippines and the Limits of Empire, Kiyoko Yamaguchi
6. Shaky Welcome: Seismic Risk and Mission Building on the Pacific Coast 1700-1830, Steven W. Hackel and Susan E. Hough
7. Dwelling Factors: Western Merchants in Canton, Johnathan Farris

PART III: SETTLER SOCIETY INVESTMENT

8. That fatall spott”: The Rise and Fall – and Rise and Fall Again – of Port Royal, Jamaica, Matthew Mulcahy
9. Rebuilding the City of Kings: Architecture and Civility in Late- Colonial Lima, Charles Walker
10. The Ambition for an All Brick City: Elites, Builders and the Growth of Eighteenth-Century Charleston, South Carolina, Emma Hart

PART IV: SETTLERS, INDIGENOUS SOCIETIES AND CONTROL OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

11. The Built Landscape and the Conquest of Iroquoia 1750-1820, Chad Anderson
12. The Built Environment of Polynesian and Micronesian Stratified Societies in the Early Contact Period, Ross Cordy
13. Naked Possession: Building and the Politics of Legitimate Occupancy in Early New South Wales, Australia, Grace Karskens

Concluding Remarks
Select Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Shammas, Carole
Carole Shammas holds the John R. Hubbard Chair in History Emerita at the University of Southern California. She has written books and numerous articles on the history of consumption, households, and the built environment in the Atlantic world.