Architecture and Extraction in the Atlantic World, 1500-1850

ISBN-13: 9781032431116 / Twarda / 2023 / 288 str.

Opis

This edited collection explores 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.

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List of contributors 

Introduction: Building for Atlantic Extraction.

Luis Gordo-Peláez and Paul Niell

Chapter 1. Early Modern Mining Exchanges across Empires

Janna Israel

Chapter 2. Purchasing a Poisoned City: Indigenous Andeans and Urban Space in Sixteenth-Century Huancavelica

Mark P. Dries

Chapter 3. New Functions of Mining Heritage in Mexico

Miguel Ángel Sorroche Cuerva

Chapter 4. The Ice House: Industry and Ritual in the Nineteenth-Century Frozen Water Trade

Louisa Iarocci

Chapter 5. Contesting the Colonial Illu: Sealing and Social Change in Kalaallit Architecture, 1750-1860

Kirstine Møller and Bart Pushaw 

Chapter 6. From Ireland to Barbados: Architecture of Extraction in British Colonies

Lee Morrissey

Chapter 7. Whiteness Among People of Color at Atlantic World Extraction Sites: A Comparative Study of the Indigenous Diamond Hill and Black Melrose Plantations

Barry L. Stiefel

Chapter 8. Absentee Architecture: Remote Building Across the British Atlantic, c. 1800

Jonah Rowen

Chapter 9. Space, Science, and Slavery in Havana’s Botanical Garden

Lee Sessions

Chapter 10. The World’s Greatest Depot: West India Docks, Warehouses, and Flexibility

Georgios Eftaxiopoulos

Chapter 11. Choice Spirits or the Alloy of Slavery: Samuel Blodget’s First Bank of the United States

Peter Minosh

Chapter 12. Castle Brew: Dreams Realized and Dreams Devastated

Courtnay Micots

Chapter 13. Architecture of Indigo Dye Extraction in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Context: The Case of Charleston and Rio de Janeiro

Alexander Lima Reis

Chapter 14. From Caravans to Railroads: Trails, Architecture, and Urban Networks in Rio Pardo’s Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Landscapes of Extraction

Rafael Augusto Silva Ferreira and Renata Baesso Pereira

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O autorze

Luis Gordo Peláez is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art, Design, and Art History at California State University, Fresno. He has previously taught at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, College of William & Mary in Virginia, and the University of Tennessee. His work examines the urban reform projects and public works agenda of the late colonial Mexican cities, particularly in Bourbon Guanajuato and the region of El Bajío.

Paul Niell is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Florida State University. His research focuses on the art, architecture, and material culture of the Hispanophone Caribbean in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.