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Building Colonialism - Archaeology and Urban Space in East Africa (Hardcover)
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Building Colonialism - Archaeology and Urban Space in East Africa (Hardcover)
Series: Debates in Archaeology
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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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