Architecture, Empire, and Trade: The United Africa Company

by Ewan Harrison, Michele Tenzon, Iain Jackson

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).

From the imperial Royal Niger Company's charter in the 1890s through to its suave African department stores of the 1960s, the UAC - a British company firmly embedded in the economies of colonialism, extraction, and exploitation - became...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350411310
• ISBN13: 9781350411319
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.7"