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Author:

Stuempfle, Stephen, author.

Title:

Port of Spain : the construction of a Caribbean city, 1888-1962 / Stephen Stuempfle.

Publisher:

University of the West Indies Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xiii, 5 unnumbered pages, 465 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Subject:

Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago)--History--19th century.
Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago)--History--20th century.
Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago)--Social life and customs.
City planning--Social aspects--Social aspects--Port of Spain.--Port of Spain.
Architecture--Port of Spain.--Port of Spain.
Postcolonialism--Port of Spain.--Port of Spain.
15.85 history of America.
Trinidad and Tobago.
Architecture.
City planning--Social aspects.
Manners and customs.
Postcolonialism.
Trinidad and Tobago--Port of Spain.
1800-1999
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-456) and index.

Contents:

8. Modern Architecture for an Emerging Nation. 1. Components of the City ; 2. City as a Whole -- Part. 2 INTERWAR ERA, 1920-1940. 3. Enhancement of the City ; 4. Housing and Lives of Working People ; 5. Spatiality of Carnival -- Part. 3 WORLD WAR II AND THE POSTWAR YEARS, 1940-1962. 6. City at War ; 7. Landscape of Independence ; 8. Modern Architecture for an Emerging Nation.

ISBN:

9789766406639
9766406634

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1003257442

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)