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Architectural History and the Colonial Question: Casablanca, Algiers and Beyond

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2016

Jean-Louis Cohen
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The last decade has seen an explosion of scholarly works dealing with colonial architecture and town planning, a domain previously marginal in the historiography. In any case it has aroused the attention of ever more numerous researchers, a fact that has stimulated this attempt to take stock of it, by drawing on cases studied by this author in his own work. The exploration of colonialism now constitutes a significant field of doctoral research, of studies associated with the identification and protection of built heritage, and tends to mould new images in the history of architecture from the last few centuries. In actual fact, the innumerable works on the twentieth century – the subject here – comprise only a fraction of all the studies concerning nearly five centuries of colonization, if the beginning of the colonial era is identified with the discovery of America and the establishment of the first European trading posts in Africa.

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Architectural History , Volume 49 , 2006 , pp. 349 - 368
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Copyright © Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 2006

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