The Architecture of Empire: France in India and Southeast Asia, 1664-1962

by Gauvin Alexander Bailey

Most monumental buildings of France's global empire - such as the famous Saigon and Hanoi Opera Houses - were built in South and Southeast Asia. Much of this architecture, and the history of who built it and how, has been overlooked. The Architecture of Empire considers the large-scale public architecture associated with French imperialism in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century India, Siam, and Vietnam, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century Indochina,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0228011426
• ISBN13: 9780228011422
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 4.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.4" x 10.1"