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Building colonialism : archaeology and urban space in East Africa / Daniel T. Rhodes

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Rhodes, Daniel T.
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New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
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Contents
Introduction -- The history of contact -- The pre-colonial urban system -- The colonial urban system -- Interpreting the urban space -- Conclusion.
Summary
Building Colonialism draws together the relationship between archaeology and history in East Africa using techniques of artefact, building, spatial and historical analyses to highlight the existence of, and accordingly the need to conserve, the urban centres of Africa's more recent past. The study does this by exploring the physical remains of European activity and the way that the construction of harbour towns directly reflects the colonial mission of European powers in the nineteenth century in Tanzania and Kenya. Based on fieldwork which recorded and analysed the buildings and monuments within these towns it compares the European creations to earlier Swahili urban design and explores the way European commercial trade systems came to dominate East Africa. Based on the kind of Urban Landscape Analyses carried out in the UK and Ireland, Building Colonialism looks at the social and spatial implications of the towns on the Indian Ocean coast which contain centres of derelict and unused buildings dating from East Africa's nineteenth-century colonial era. The book begins by concentrating upon towns in Tanzania and Kenya which were the key entry points into Africa for the nineteenth-century colonial regimes and compares these to later French and Italian colonies and discusses contemporary approaches to the conservation of colonial built heritage and the difficulties faced in ensuring valid participatory protection of the urban heritage resource
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9781472519276 (electronic bk.)
1472519272 (electronic bk.)
9781472593139 (online)
1472593138
9781472512598
1472512596
9781472519269
1472519264
1472519272
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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