Research Catalog

Title

The architecture of empire : France in India and Southeast Asia, 1664-1962 / Gauvin Alexander Bailey.

Author

Bailey, Gauvin A.

Publication

• Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]
• ©2022

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Details

Description

x, 476 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, plans (chiefly color); 27 cm

Summary

"Though most monumental buildings of France's global empire--such as the famous Saigon and Hanoi Opera Houses--were built in South and Southeast Asia, much of this architecture, and the history of who built it and how, has been overlooked. The Architecture of Empire considers the large-scale public architecture associated with French imperialism in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century India, Siam, and Vietnam, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century Indochina, the largest colony France ever administered in Asia. Offering a sweeping panorama of the buildings of France's colonial project, this is the first study to encompass the architecture of both the ancien régime and modern empires, from the founding of the French trading company in the seventeenth century to the independence and nationalist movements of the mid-twentieth century. Gauvin Alexander Bailey places particular emphasis on the human factor: the people who commissioned, built, and lived in these buildings. Almost all of these architects, both Europeans and non-Europeans, have remained unknown beyond--at best--their surnames. Through extensive archival research, this book reconstructs their lives, providing vital background for the buildings themselves. Much more than in the French empire of the Western Hemisphere, the buildings in this book adapt to indigenous styles, regardless of whether they were designed and built by European or non-European architects. The Architecture of Empire provides a unique, comprehensive study of structures that rank among the most fascinating examples of intercultural exchange in the history of global empires."--

Subject

• 1600-1999
• Public architecture > India > History > 17th century
• Public architecture > India > History > 18th century
• Architecture, French colonial > India > History > 17th century
• Architecture, French colonial > India > History > 18th century
• Public architecture > Indochina > History > 19th century
• Public architecture > Indochina > History > 20th century
• Architecture, French colonial > Indochina > History > 19th century
• Architecture, French colonial > Indochina > History > 20th century
• Architecture, French colonial
• Buildings
• Public architecture
• India > Buildings, structures, etc
• Indochina > Buildings, structures, etc
• India
• Indochina

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-459) and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Call Number

JQF 24-466

ISBN

• 9780228011422
• 0228011426
• 9780228012443 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2022482563

OCLC

1273915209

Author

Bailey, Gauvin A., author.

Title

The architecture of empire : France in India and Southeast Asia, 1664-1962 / Gauvin Alexander Bailey.

Publisher

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-459) and index.

Additional Formats

Issued also in electronic format.

Chronological Term

1600-1999

Other Form:

Online version: Bailey, Gauvin A. Architecture of empire. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022 0228012449 9780228012443 (OCoLC)1291397332

Research Call Number

JQF 24-466