Urban Space as Heritage in Late Colonial Cuba : : Classicism and Dissonance on the Plaza de Armas of Havana, 1754-1828 / / Paul Niell.
According to national legend, Havana, Cuba, was founded under the shade of a ceiba tree whose branches sheltered the island’s first Catholic mass and meeting of the town council (cabildo) in 1519. The founding site was first memorialized in 1754 by the erection of a baroque monument in Havana’s cent...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative, Mellon Foundation
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- ONE The Plaza de Armas and Spatial Reform
- Two. Classicism and Reformed Subjectivity
- Three. Fashioning Heritage on the Colonial Plaza de Armas
- Four. The Dissonance of Colonial Heritage
- FIVE. Sugar, Slavery, and Disinheritance
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index