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5 octobre 2017
- doi: 10.4000/abe.3586
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Empire britannique architecture vernaculaire British Empire vernacular architecture Imperio británico arquitectura vernácula Britisches Reich Traditionelle Regionalarchitektur Impero britannico architettura vernacolareSujets proches
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Daniel Maudlin, « Louis P. Nelson, Architecture and Empire in Jamaica », ABE Journal, ID : 10.4000/abe.3586
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In this fascinating and well-written account, Louis Nelson places the domestic architecture of eighteenth-century Jamaica in the wider context of the British Atlantic world. Beautifully produced by Yale, Architecture and Empire in Jamaica aligns architecture–the production and consumption of buildings–with the production and consumption of empire. Based on extensive fieldwork, Nelson positions the design, construction and occupation of buildings, particularly housing, as evidence of the multi...