Fr. 280.80

Investing in the Early Modern Built Environment - Europeans, Asians, Settlers and Indigenous Societies

English · Hardback

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Today the bulk of tangible wealth around the globe resides in buildings and physical infrastructure rather than moveable goods. This situation was not always the case. Investing in the Early Modern Built Environment represents the first attempt to delve into the period's enhanced architectural investment--its successes, its failures, and the conflicts it provoked. Not just cultural but clear economic and environmental reasons existed for a rejection of the new architectural agenda. Whatever its efficacy or flaws, it ultimately served as a model worldwide for cityscapes and housing well into the twentieth century.

Contributors include Jordan Sand, Robin Pearson, John Broad, Kiyoko Yamaguchi, Steven W. Hackel, Susan E. Hough, Johnathan Farris, Matthew Mulcahy, Charles Walker, Emma Hart, Chad Anderson, Ross H. Cordy, Grace Karskens, and Carole Shammas.

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Carole Shammas holds the John R. Hubbard Chair in History Emerita at the University of Southern California. She has written books and numerous articles on the history of consumption, households, and the built environment in the Atlantic world.

Product details

Assisted by Carole Shammas (Editor)
Publisher Brill
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.08.2012
 
EAN 9789004231160
ISBN 978-90-04-23116-0
No. of pages 430
Dimensions 160 mm x 241 mm x 23 mm
Weight 816 g
Series European Expansion and Indigen
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture
Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management

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