Architecture and ➕ Empire in Jamaica ​🇯🇲​

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✅ Through Creole houses 🏘️ and ➕ merchant stores 🏪 to sugar fields 🏑 and ➕ boiling houses 🏘️, Jamaica ​🇯🇲​ played ▶️ a leading role in the formation of both the early modern Atlantic world 🗺️ and ➕ the British ​🇬🇧​ Empire. Architecture and ➕ Empire in Jamaica ​🇯🇲​ offers the first 🥇 scholarly analysis of Jamaican architecture in the long eighteenth century, spanning roughly from the Port Royal earthquake of 1️⃣6️⃣9️⃣2️⃣ to Emancipation in 1️⃣8️⃣3️⃣8️⃣. In this richly illustrated study, which includes hundreds of the authors own photographs and ➕ drawings 🖌️, Louis P. Nelson examines surviving buildings and ➕ archival records ⏺️ to write 🖋️ a social history of architecture. Nelson begins 🆕 with an overview of the architecture of the West ⬅️ African slave trade then moves to chapters framed 🖼️ around types of buildings and ➕ landscapes, including the Jamaican plantation landscape 🌆 and ➕ fortified houses 🏘️ to the architecture of free 🆓 blacks ⚫️. He 👤👨 concludes with a consideration of Jamaican architecture in Britain ​🇬🇧​. By connecting the architecture of the Caribbean first 🥇 to West ⬅️ Africa 🌍️ and ➕ then to Britain ​🇬🇧​, Nelson traces the flow of capital and ➕ makes 🛠️ explicit the material, economic, and ➕ political networks around the Atlantic.

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