Investing in the early modern built environment : Europeans, Asians, settlers and indigenous societies / edited by Carole Shammas.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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General Editor's Preface; List of Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; Introduction; Chapter One The Early Modern Built Environment Globally: The State of the Field; Part One Investing in a "Permanent" Built Environment: Japan versus England; Chapter Two Property in Two Fire Regimes: From Edo to Tokyo; Chapter Three The Impact of Fire and Fire Insurance on Eighteenth-Century English Town Buildings and their Populations; Chapter Four Permanence and Impermanence in Housing Provision for the Eighteenth-Century Rural Poor in England.

Part Two Investment Abroad by the Emissaries of European EmpiresChapter Five The Architecture of the Spanish Philippines and the Limits of Empire; Chapter Six A Shaky Welcome: Seismic Risk and Mission Building on the Pacific Coast 1700-1830; Chapter Seven Dwelling Factors: Western Merchants in Canton; Part Three Settler Society Investment; Chapter Eight "that fatall spott": The Rise and Fall -- and Rise and Fall Again -- of Port Royal, Jamaica; Chapter Nine Rebuilding the City of Kings: Architecture and Civility in Late-Colonial Lima.

Chapter Ten The Ambition for an All Brick City: Elites, Builders and the Growth of Eighteenth-Century Charleston, South CarolinaPart Four Settlers, Indigenous Societies and Control of the Built Environment; Chapter Eleven The Built Landscape and the Conquest of Iroquoia, 1750-1820; Chapter Twelve The Built Environment of Polynesian and Micronesian Stratified Societies in the Early Contact Period; Chapter Thirteen Naked Possession: Building and the Politics of Legitimate Occupancy in Early New South Wales, Australia; Concluding Remarks; Select Bibliography; Index.

Investing in the Early Modern Built Environment represents the first attempt to delve into the period's enhanced architectural investment-its successes, its failures, and the conflicts it provoked globally.

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