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Of Planting and Planning: The making of British colonial cities (Planning, History and Environment Series) Book

Of Planting and Planning 'At the centre of the world-economy, one always finds an exceptional state, strong, aggressive and privileged, dynamic, simultaneously feared and admired.' - Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Centuries This, surely, is an apt description of the British Empire at its zenith. Of Planting and Planning explores how Britain used the formation of towns and cities as an instrument of colonial expansion and control throughout the Empire. Beginning with the seventeenth-century plantation of Ulster and ending with decolonization after the Second World War, Robert Home reveals how the British Empire gave rise to many of the biggest cities in the w...Read More

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  • 0415540542
  • 9780415540544
  • Robert Home
  • 11 January 2013
  • Routledge
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 272
  • 2
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