Architecture and urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire : state, Church, and society, 1604-1830 /
"Spanning from the West African coast to the Canadian prairies and south to Louisiana, the Caribbean, and Guiana, France's Atlantic empire was one of the largest political entities in the Western Hemisphere. Yet despite France's status as a nation at the forefront of architecture and...
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| Định dạng: | Licensed eBooks |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[2018]
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| Loạt: | McGill-Queen's French Atlantic worlds series ;
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1823558 |
Mục lục:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Maps; 1 Introduction: The Architecture of Empire; 2 Ideology and Reality in the French Atlantic Empire; 3 France and Amerindian Architecture, the Amerindian Reductions, and l'Affaire de Kourou; 4 African Slaves and the Architecture of the French Atlantic Empire; 5 Free People of Colour and the Architecture of the French Atlantic Empire; 6 White Civilian Architects and Builders in the Colonies; 7 Building pour la gloire du roi: The Royal Engineer Architects.
- 8 Putting Their House in Order: Urban Idealism in France and the Seventeenth-Century Colonies9 The Planned City in the French Atlantic World, 1700-1789; 10 Urbanism in Eighteenth-Century Saint-Domingue and Public Monuments in the French Atlantic; 11 Formal and Scientific Gardens and Ephemera; 12 Secular Architecture before the Seven Years' War; 13 Secular Architecture after the Seven Years' War; 14 Tradition and Innovation in Church Architecture; 15 Italianate Church Facades, Eclecticism, and Neoclassicism from Quebec to Senegal, 1654-1830.
- 16 The Architecture of the Land: Vernacular Traditions17 Epilogue: Circa 1830: The End of an Empire; Glossary; Timeline; Notes; Bibliography; Index.