Report

Report
Author: Commonwealth Shipping Committee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1834
Genre: Shipping
ISBN:

Reports

Reports
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
Publisher:
Total Pages: 462
Release: 1825
Genre:
ISBN:

Architecture and Extraction in the Atlantic World, 1500-1850

Architecture and Extraction in the Atlantic World, 1500-1850
Author: Luis J. Gordo Peláez
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2023-12-12
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1003822649

This edited collection examines the development of Atlantic World architecture after 1492. In particular, the chapters explore the landscapes of extraction as material networks that brought people, space, and labor together in harvesting raw materials, cultivating agriculture for export-level profits, and circulating raw materials and commodities in Europe, Africa, and the Americas from 1500 to 1850. This book argues that histories of extraction remain incomplete without careful attention to the social, physical, and mental nexus that is architecture, just as architecture’s development in the last 500 years cannot be adequately comprehended without attention to empire, extraction, colonialism, and the rise of what Immanuel Wallerstein has called the world system. This world system was possible because of built environments that enabled resource extraction, transport of raw materials, circulation of commodities, and enactment of power relations in the struggle between capital and labor. Separated into three sections: Harvesting the Environment, Cultivating Profit, and Circulating Commodities: Networks and Infrastructures, this volume covers a wide range of geographies, from England to South America, from Africa to South Carolina. The book aims to decenter Eurocentric approaches to architectural history to expose the global circulation of ideas, things, commodities, and people that constituted the architecture of extraction in the Atlantic World. In focusing on extraction, we aim to recover histories of labor exploitation and racialized oppression of interest to the global community. The book will be of interest to researchers and students of architectural history, geography, urban and labor history, literary studies, historic preservation, and colonial studies.

Thomas Tooke and the Monetary Thought of Classical Economics

Thomas Tooke and the Monetary Thought of Classical Economics
Author: Matthew Smith
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2011-03-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136817190

The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive account and reconsideration of the contribution to political economy of Thomas Tooke (1774-1858), classical economist and influential monetary theorist. Its chief purpose is to examine Tooke’s contributions to political economy with the aim of bringing to light its unified nature and its important legacy to contemporary economics. In doing so the book aims to throw new light on monetary analysis within the framework of classical economics. There remains no comprehensive account of Tooke’s contributions that is concerned with showing his lasting and ongoing influence on the development of monetary thought. The book provides an interpretation and analytical study of Tooke’s political economy from the standpoint of the classical tradition. This enables a demonstration of how his constructive contribution throws a new light on monetary thought in this tradition.

Legacies of British Slave-ownership

Legacies of British Slave-ownership
Author: Catherine Hall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2014-08-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107040051

This book puts the legacies of slavery squarely back into modern British history.