Atlantic history
British Atlantic history
British Atlantic World
British Canada
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Drayton Hall
Early American history
early modern material culture
eighteenth century British architectural history
eighteenth century Canadian history
eighteenth century Jamaican colonial history
eighteenth century slave trade
eighteenth century studies
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Georgian architecture
Monticello
Mount Vernon
plantations and plantation owners
slavery in West Africa
Transatlantic history
urban history
Product details
- ISBN 9781469626826
- Weight: 512g
- Dimensions: 158 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2016
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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. In this groundbreaking study, thirteen leading scholars explore the idea of transatlanticism-or a shared ""Atlantic world"" experience-through the lens of architecture and built spaces in the British Atlantic world from the seventeenth century through the mid-nineteenth century. Examining town planning, churches, forts, merchants' stores, state houses, and farm houses, this collection shows how the powerful visual language of architecture and design allowed the people of this era to maintain common cultural experiences while still forming their individuality.
By studying the interplay between physical construction and social themes that include identity, gender, taste, domesticity, politics, and race, the authors interpret material culture in a way that particularly emphasizes the people who built, occupied, and used the spaces and reflects the complex cultural exchanges between Britain and the New World.
By studying the interplay between physical construction and social themes that include identity, gender, taste, domesticity, politics, and race, the authors interpret material culture in a way that particularly emphasizes the people who built, occupied, and used the spaces and reflects the complex cultural exchanges between Britain and the New World.
Daniel Maudlin is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Plymouth, UK.
Bernard L. Herman is George B. Tindall Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies and Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
Bernard L. Herman is George B. Tindall Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies and Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
