Investing in the early modern built environment : : Europeans, Asians, settlers and Indigenous societies / / edited by Carole Shammas.

• VerfasserIn: Shammas, Carole,
• TeilnehmendeR: Shammas, Carole.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: European Expansion and Indigenous Response 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (430 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; 1. The Early Modern Built Environment Globally: The State of the Field /; 2. Property in Two Fire Regimes: From Edo to Tokyo /; 3. The Impact of Fire and Fire Insurance on Eighteenth-Century English Town Buildings and their Populations /; 4. Permanence and Impermanence in Housing Provision for the Eighteenth-Century Rural Poor in England /; 5. The Architecture of the Spanish Philippines and the Limits of Empire /; 6. A Shaky Welcome: Seismic Risk and Mission Building on the Pacific Coast 1700–1830 /; 7. Dwelling Factors: Western Merchants in Canton /; 8. “that fatall spott”: The Rise and Fall – and Rise and Fall Again – of Port Royal, Jamaica /; 9. Rebuilding the City of Kings: Architecture and Civility in Late-Colonial Lima /; 10. The Ambition for an All Brick City: Elites, Builders and the Growth of Eighteenth-Century Charleston, South Carolina /; 11. The Built Landscape and the Conquest of Iroquoia, 1750–1820 /; 12. The Built Environment of Polynesian and Micronesian Stratified Societies in the Early Contact Period /; 13. Naked Possession: Building and the Politics of Legitimate Occupancy in Early New South Wales, Australia /; Concluding Remarks --; Select Bibliography --; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1283551225; 9786613863676; 9004231196
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Carole Shammas.

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.