Colonial Cities

Essays on Urbanism in a Colonial Context

AvR.J. Ross,Gerard J. Telkamp

Inbunden, Engelska, 1984

Del i serien Comparative Studies in Overseas History

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Beskrivning

TELKAMP I In a sense, cities were superfluous to the purposes of colonists. From the point of view of the colonists, the cities were therefore in some respects necessary evils, as they were parasites on the rural producers, competing with the colonists in the process of surplus extraction.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1984-12-31
Mått:155 x 235 x 28 mm
Vikt:528 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Comparative Studies in Overseas History
Antal sidor:250
Upplaga:1985
Förlag:Springer
ISBN:9789024729258

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Historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Innehållsförteckning

I: Introduction.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Colonial Cities: Global Pivots of Change.- II: Case Studies.- 3. Central America’s Autarkic Colonial Cities (1600–1800).- 4. Zeelandia, A Dutch Colonial City on Formosa (1624–1662).- 5. An Insane Administration and an Unsanitary Town: The Dutch East India Company and Batavia (1619–1799).- 6. Eighteenth-Century Calcutta.- 7. Cape Town (1750–1850): Synthesis in the Dialectic of Continents.- 8. Rio de Janeiro: From Colonial Town to Imperial Capital (1808–1850).- 9. A Caribbean Creole Capital: Kingston, Jamaica (1692–1938).- 10. Algiers: Colonial Metropolis (1830–1961).- 11. Saigon, or the Failure of an Ambition (1858–1945).- 12. Dakar, Ville impériale (1857–1960).- 13. Bombay: From Fishing Village to Colonial Port City (1662–1947).- III: Epilogue.- 14. The Colonial City and the Post-Colonial World.- Notes on the Contributors.