Description: About this Item The item is a book Hardback The Author Name is Mark Hinchman The Title is Portrait of an Island : The Architecture and Material Culture of Goree, Senegal, 1758-1837 Condition New Other Comments Pages Count - 420. Category - History Product Description - The once-famous trading center of Goree, Senegal, today lies in the busy harbor of the modern city of Dakar. From its beginnings as a modest outpost, Goree became one of the intersections linking African trading routes to the European Atlantic trade. Then as now, people of many nationalities poured into the island: Dutch, English, French, Portuguese, Tukulor, and Wolof. Trading parties brought with them gold, firewood, mirrors, books, and more. They built houses of various forms, using American lumber, French roof tiles, freshly cut straw, and pulverized seashells, and furnished them in a fashion as cosmopolitan as the city itself. A work of architectural history, Portrait of an Island explores the material culture and social relations of West Africa in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Multiple features of eighteenth-century Goree-its demographic diversity the prominence of women leaders the phenomenon of identities in flux and the importance of fashion and international trade-articulate its place in the construction of an early global modernity. An examination of the built and natural landscape, Portrait of an Island deciphers the material culture involved in the ever-changing relationships among male, female, rich, poor, free, and slave. We Use Stock Images Because we have over 2 million items for sale we have to use stock images, this listing does not include the actual image of the item for sale. The purchase of this specific item is made with the understanding that the image shown in this listing is a stock image and not the actual item for sale. For example: some of our stock images include stickers, labels, price tags, hyper stickers, obi's, promotional messages, signatures and or writing which may not be available in the actual item. When possible we will add details of the items we are selling to help buyers know what is included in the item for sale. The details are provided automatically from our central master database and can sometimes be wrong. Books are released in many editions and variations, such as standard edition, re-issue, not for sale, promotional, special edition, limited edition, and many other editions and versions. The Book you receive could be any of these editions or variations. If you are looking for a specific edition or version please contact us to verify what we are selling. Gift IdeasThis is a great Christmas gift idea. Hours of ServiceWe have many warehouses, some of the warehouses process orders seven days a week, but the Administration Support Staff are located at a head office location, outside of the warehouses, and typically work only Monday to Friday. Location ID 9000z iHaveit SKU ID 167380998
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UPC: 9780803254138
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Number of Pages: 420 Pages
Publication Name: Portrait of an Island : the Architecture & Material Culture of Gorée, Sénégal, 1758-1837
Language: English
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 1.4 in
Subject: Africa / West, Sociology / General, Social History, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, General, History / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 30.7 Oz
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Architecture, Social Science, History
Author: Mark Hinchman
Item Width: 6.3 in
Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies
Format: Hardcover
