Architecture and extraction in the Atlantic world, 1500-1850 /
This edited collection examines the development of Atlantic World architecture after 1492. In particular, the chapters explore the landscapes of extraction as material networks that brought people, space and labor together in harvesting raw materials, cultivating agriculture for export-level profits...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
[2024].
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| Series: | Routledge research in architectural history.
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| Summary: | This edited collection examines the development of Atlantic World architecture after 1492. In particular, the chapters explore the landscapes of extraction as material networks that brought people, space and labor together in harvesting raw materials, cultivating agriculture for export-level profits and circulating raw materials and commodities in Europe, Africa and the Americas from 1500 to 1850. This book argues that histories of extraction remain incomplete without careful attention to the social, physical and mental nexus that is architecture, just as architecture's development in the last five hundred years cannot be adequately comprehended without attention to empire, extraction, colonialism and the rise of what Immanuel Wallerstein has called the world system. This world system was possible because of built environments that enabled resource extraction, transport of raw materials, circulation of commodities and enactment of power relations in the struggle between capital and labor. Separated into three sections, Harvesting the Environment, Cultivating Profit and Circulating Commodities: Networks and Infrastructures this volume covers a wide range of geographies, from England to South America, from Africa to South Carolina. The book aims to decenter Eurocentric approaches to architectural history to expose the global circulation of ideas, things, commodities and people that constituted the architecture of extraction in the Atlantic World. In focusing on extraction, we aim to recover histories of labor exploitation and racialized oppression of interest to the global community. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of architectural history, geography, urban and labor history, literary studies, historic preservation and colonial studies. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 245 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781032431116 1032431113 9781032434575 1032434570 |