Building the British Atlantic world : spaces, places, and material culture, 1600-1850

Building the British Atlantic world : spaces, places, and material culture, 1600-1850 /

"Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions. ... studying the interplay between physical construction and social themes that include identity, gender, taste,...

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Other Authors: Maudlin, Daniel (Editor), Herman, Bernard L., 1951- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Series:H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series
Subjects:
British > Material culture > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
Architecture, British colonial > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
Architecture, British > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
Architecture, British
Architecture, British colonial
British colonies
Civilization
History.
Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
Great Britain > Civilization
Great Britain > Colonies > America > Civilization.
Great Britain > Colonies > Africa, West > Civilization.
West Africa
America
Atlantic Ocean Region
Great Britain
History
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Daniel Maudlin and Bernard L. Herman
  • To build and fortify: defensive architecture in the early Atlantic colonies / Emily Mann
  • Seats of government: the public buildings of British America / Carl Lounsbury
  • Landscapes of the new republic at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello / Anna O. Marley
  • English artisans' churches and North America: traditions of vernacular classicism in the eighteenth century / Peter Guillery
  • The New England meetinghouse: an Atlantic perspective / Peter Benes
  • The praying Indian towns: encounter and conversion through imposed urban space / Alison Stanley
  • Tools of empire: trade, slaves, and the British forts of West Africa / Christopher DeCorse
  • The Falmouth house and store: the social landscapes of Caribbean commerce in the eighteenth century / Louis P. Nelson
  • Building British Atlantic port cities: Bristol and Liverpool in the eighteenth century / Kenneth Morgan
  • Building status in the British Atlantic world: the gentleman's house in the English West Country and Pennsylvania / Stephen Hague
  • Parlor and kitchen in the borderlands of the urban British American Atlantic world, 1670-1720 / Bernard L. Herman
  • Palladianism and the villa ideal in South Carolina: the transatlantic perils of classical purity / Lee Morrissey
  • Politics and place-making on the edge of empire: loyalists, highlanders, and the early farmhouses of British Canada / Daniel Maudlin.

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