A comprehensive overview of the architectural and urban transformations that took place across the British Empire between the seventeenth and mid-twentieth cent
Throughout today's postcolonial world, buildings, monuments, parks, streets, avenues, entire cities even, remain as witness to Britain's once impressive if trou
Colonial architecture and urbanism carved its way through space: ordering and classifying the built environment, while projecting the authority of European powe
Spanning from the West African coast to the Canadian prairies and south to Louisiana, the Caribbean, and Guiana, France's Atlantic empire was one of the largest
A carefully crafted selection of essays from international experts, this book explores the effect of colonial architecture and space on the societies involved �