Main entry:

Jackson, Iain, author.

Title & Author:

Architecture, empire, and trade : the United Africa Company / Iain Jackson, Ewan Harrison, Michele Tenzon, Rixt Woudstra and Claire Tunstall.

Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2025.

Description:

xxii, 492 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (color), plans (color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Maps on lining paper.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The United Africa Company Archive -- Responder Essay: UAC and/in the Archives: Silences and Gaps / Ayodeji Olukoju -- Trading Stations on the River Niger: Treaties, Charters, and the Royal Niger Company -- Island Traders: The Company Town of Burutu and the Crown Colony of Lagos -- Responder Essay: UAC Rivers Stations and Oil Rivers: An Argument for Local 'Found' Knowledge as the Archilles heel in Ijo Communities / Warebe Brisibe -- Image Collection: Rivers and Coast -- Narratives of Legitimation: Palm Oil Extraction in the Belgian Congo -- Building a 'Forest Factory': Architecture, Extraction and the African Timber and Plywood Company in Nigeria and Ghana -- Responder Essay: Land / Ola Uduku -- Image Collection: Land -- Fine Buildings Enrich A Country: Factories, Showrooms and the UAC as a partner in Decolonisation -- The Independence Boom: Africanisation, Land Speculation and the Business of Building -- Kingsway Stores: Contested Visions of Developments -- Responder Essay: Social Class, Kingsway Stores, Archival Fictions / Kuukuwa Manful -- Image Collection: City.

Summary:

"This open access book tells a new and untold history of the architecture of West Africa in the colonial era, as revealed for the first time through the archives of the United Africa Company (UAC). With unprecedented archival access, it reproduces a rich photographic collection of streetscapes, buildings, and interiors to piece together the architectural legacy of this violent period of transnational extraction. The result is an insightful reflection on how architecture manifests power, culture, and identity in colonial and post-colonial contexts. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Liverpool"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781350411319 (hardback)
1350411310
9781350411357 (paperback)
1350411353
(pdf)
9781350411326
(ebook)
9781350411333

Subject:

United Africa Company History.
Architecture, Colonial Africa, West.
Architecture coloniale Afrique occidentale.
Africa, West Colonial influence.
Africa, West Commerce Great Britain History.
Afrique occidentale Influence coloniale.
Afrique occidentale Commerce Grande-Bretagne Histoire.

Added entries:

Harrison, Ewan, author.
Tenzon, Michele, author.
Woudstra, Rixt, author.
Tunstall, Claire, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 325237
Call No.: 325237
Copy: 1
Status: Available