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By Daniel Maudlin,Bernard L. Herman

ISBN-10: 1469626829

ISBN-13: 9781469626826

Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic global is deeply interconnected throughout its areas. during this groundbreaking learn, 13 major students discover the belief of transatlanticism--or a shared "Atlantic global" experience--through the lens of structure, outfitted areas, and landscapes within the British Atlantic from the 17th century throughout the mid-nineteenth century. interpreting city making plans, church buildings, forts, retailers' shops, kingdom homes, and farm homes, this assortment indicates how the robust visible language of structure and layout allowed the folk of this period to take care of universal cultural studies throughout various landscapes whereas nonetheless forming their individuality.

By learning the interaction among actual building and social subject matters that come with identification, gender, style, domesticity, politics, and race, the authors interpret fabric tradition in a manner that rather emphasizes the folk who outfitted, occupied, and used the areas and displays the advanced cultural exchanges among Britain and the recent World.

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