..., and reformatories in both the Dutch Republic and its colonies commemorated leadership that privileged moderation over extravagance. In Disciplining Otherness in the Tropics: Dutch Philanthropic Sites and the Urbanization of Indonesian Ports, 1640–1730 , Sim Hinman Wan considers buildings for organized philanthropy...

...@ucpress.edu . 2019 colonialism churches Abreha wa-Atsbeha Italy Ethiopia Tigray restoration Sometime in the period from 1936 to 1939, the new Italian overlords of the Adigrat regional governorate, in the newly formed Africa Orientale Italiana, identified several old churches among...

...Joseph R. Hartman In Silent Witnesses: Modernity, Colonialism, and Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier's Unfinished Plans for Havana, Joseph R. Hartman examines Havana's urbanization under the dictatorship of Gerardo Machado (in power 1925–33), focusing on the largely unrealized plans of French urbanist...

...David Rifkind Gondar, Ethiopia, expanded dramatically in the late 1930s as a colonial administrative center for Italian East Africa. David Rifkind shows how urban design and architecture functioned in Gondar between 1936 and 1941 as key tools of Italian colonial policy. Italian urbanism throughout...