A History of Architecture and Trade
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A History of Architecture and Trade

  1. 230 pages
  2. English
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A History of Architecture and Trade

About this book

A History of Architecture and Trade draws together essays from an international roster of distinguished and emerging scholars to critically examine the important role architecture and urbanism played in the past five hundred years of global trading, moving away from a conventional Western narrative. The book uses an alternative holistic lens through which to view the development of architecture and trade, covering diverse topics such as the coercive urbanism of the Dutch East India Company; how slavery and capitalism shaped architecture and urbanization; and the importance of Islamic trading in the history of global trade. Each chapter examines a key site in history, using architecture, landscape and urban scale as evidence to show how trade has shaped them. It will appeal to scholars and researchers interested in areas such as world history, economic and trade history and architectural history.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9780367667238
eBook ISBN
9781351796798
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
Architecture General

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Author biographies
  8. Introduction: The architecture of trade is as old as human history
  9. 1 Legacies of colonialism: Towards an architectural history of capitalism
  10. 2 Spices, spies, and speculation: Trust and control in the early Batavia-Amsterdam system
  11. 3 Cities of incense and myrrh: Fantasy and capitalism in the Arabian Gulf
  12. 4 Borneo, the river effect, and the spirit world millionaires
  13. 5 House as marketplace: Swahili merchant houses and their urban context in the later Middle Ages
  14. 6 An anachronism of trade: The Mercato Nuovo in Florence (1546–1551)
  15. 7 Merchant identity: The cartographic impulse in the architectural sculpture of the Llotja of Palma de Mallorca
  16. 8 The travels of a merchant throughout the Islamic World
  17. 9 Savannah’s Custom House: A peculiar construction of galvanized iron, apparently durable and well-adapted to a southern climate
  18. 10 The modernization of a port in British India: Calcutta, 1870–1880
  19. 11 Building the marble elephant: The creation of Philadelphia’s iconic City Hall
  20. Index