IsisCB Explore

Book ID: CBB655076242

Architecture and urbanism in the French Atlantic empire : State, church, and society, 1604-1830 (2018)

McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication date: 2018
Language: English

ISBN: 9780773553149

Publication Date: 2018
Edition Details: Book Series: McGill-Queen's French Atlantic worlds series, no. 1
Physical Details: 619

Outside Links

WorldCat

Google Scholar

Google Books

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 political entities in the Western Hemisphere. Yet despite France's status as a nation at the forefront of architecture and the structures and designs from this period that still remain, its colonial building program has never been considered on a hemispheric scale. Drawing from hundreds of plans, drawings, photographic field surveys, and extensive archival sources, Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire focuses on the French state's and the Catholic Church's ideals and motivations for their urban and architectural projects in the Americas. In vibrant detail, Gauvin Alexander Bailey recreates a world that has been largely destroyed by wars, natural disasters, and fires - from Cap-François (now Cap-Haïtien), which once boasted palaces in the styles of Louis XV and formal gardens patterned after Versailles, to failed utopian cities like Kourou in Guiana. Vividly illustrated with examples of grand buildings, churches, and gardens, as well as simple houses and cottages, this volume also brings to life the architects who built these structures, not only French military engineers and white civilian builders, but also the free people of colour and slaves who contributed so much to the tropical colonies. Taking readers on a historical tour through the striking landmarks of the French colonial landscape, Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire presents a sweeping panorama of an entire hemisphere of architecture and its legacy.

...More

Reviewed By

Review Bertie Mandelblatt (Spring 2023) Review of "Architecture and urbanism in the French Atlantic empire : State, church, and society, 1604-1830". Renaissance Quarterly (pp. 216-218). unapi

Citation URI

data.isiscb.org/p/isis/citation/CBB655076242

This citation is part of the Isis database.

Citations Indexes

Similar Citations

Book Owen Hatherley; (2018)
Trans-Europe Express: tours of a lost continent (/p/isis/citation/CBB536111751/)

Book Mattern, Shannon Cristine; (2017)
Code + clay ... data + dirt: five thousand years of urban media (/p/isis/citation/CBB990508440/)

Book James Zarsadiaz; (2022)
Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A. (/p/isis/citation/CBB646453225/)

Article David Espinosa-Espinosa; A. César González-García; Marco V. García-Quintela; (2018)
Urban Planning and Ritual Action in Colonia Ulpia Traiana (Xanten, Germany): Understanding a Non-solar Orientation Pattern (/p/isis/citation/CBB118474108/)

Article A. César González-García; Marco V. García Quintela; (2018)
Roman or Gaulic: Orientation as a Footprint of Cultural Identity? (/p/isis/citation/CBB827430322/)

Book Maria F. Maurer; (2019)
Gender, space and experience at the Renaissance court: performance and practice at the Palazzo Te (/p/isis/citation/CBB498438956/)

Book Mari Hvattum; Hultzsch, Anne; (2018)
The Printed and the Built: Architecture, Print Culture, and Public Debate in the Nineteenth Century (/p/isis/citation/CBB243477730/)

Book Kenny Cupers; (2014)
The social project: Housing postwar France (/p/isis/citation/CBB143503378/)

Article Yazan Abu Ghazal; Devon E Hinton; (2016)
Platzschwindel, agoraphobia and their influence on theories of anxiety at the end of the nineteenth century: theories of the role of biology and ‘representations’ (Vorstellungen) (/p/isis/citation/CBB447825648/)

Book Thaïsa Way; (2018)
River Cities: City Rivers (/p/isis/citation/CBB937684277/)

Book Karen Chapple; Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia; (2019)
Transit-oriented displacement or community dividends?: understanding the effects of smarter growth on communities (/p/isis/citation/CBB261848613/)

Article Carla Assmann; (2020)
The emergence of the car-oriented city: Entanglements and transfer agents in West-Berlin, East-Berlin and Lyon, 1945–75 (/p/isis/citation/CBB736723458/)

Book Edward K. Muller; Joel A. Tarr; (2019)
Making Industrial Pittsburgh Modern: Environment, Landscape, Transportation, and Planning (/p/isis/citation/CBB395677194/)

Book Ben Green; (2019)
The smart enough city : Putting technology in its place to reclaim our urban future (/p/isis/citation/CBB115247571/)

Book Rebecca Retzlaff; Ryan Reft; Phillips de Lucas, Amanda K.,; (2023)
Justice and the Interstates : The racist truth about urban highways (/p/isis/citation/CBB151598469/)

Book Germaine Halegoua; (2020)
Smart Cities (/p/isis/citation/CBB219487083/)

Book Shepherd, Wade; (2015)
Ghost cities of China : The story of cities without people in the world's most populated country (/p/isis/citation/CBB684543915/)

Book John H. Spiers; (2018)
Smarter Growth: Activism and Environmental Policy in Metropolitan Washington (/p/isis/citation/CBB680489988/)

Article Annika Levels; (December 2020)
(Re-) claiming urban streets: The conflicting (auto)mobilities of cycling and driving in Berlin and New York (/p/isis/citation/CBB928781870/)

Book Fábio Duarte; Firmino, Rodrigo José; (2018)
Unplugging the City: the urban phenomenon and its sociotechnical controversies (/p/isis/citation/CBB758555286/)