Architecture and Extraction in the Atlantic World, 1500-1850 - Luis J Gordo Peláez

Architecture and Extraction in the Atlantic World, 1500-1850 - Bog af Luis J Gordo Peláez - Hardback

This edited collection examines the development of Atlantic World architecture after 1492. In particular, the chapters explore the landscapes of extraction as material networks that brought people, space, and labor together in harvesting raw materials, cultivating agriculture for export-level profits, and circulating raw materials and commodities in Europe, Africa, and the Americas from 1500 to 1850.This book argues that histories of extraction remain incomplete without careful attention to the social,..