Louis P. Nelson is professor of architectural history and associate dean for research in the School of Architecture, University of Virginia.
"Drawing on ten years of field-based research in Jamaica, Louis P.
Nelson has assembled a picture of everything from country seats to
merchant stores and humbler dwellings."— Bruce Boucher, Times
Literary Supplement
"a magnificent achievement, well rooted in significant research" —
Graham Kent, Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society
“Impressive book [. . .] It delivers fresh ideas and unfamiliar
images on every page” —James Robertson, New West Indian Guide
Won an Honorable Mention in the Architecture & Urban Planning
category for the 2017 American Publishers Awards for Professional &
Scholarly Excellence (PROSE).
Winner of the 2017 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize given by the
Foundation for Landscape Studies.
Winner of the 2017 Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize given by the
Vernacular Architecture Forum.
Winner of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural
Historians' 2017 SESAH Book Award
“Architecture and Empire in Jamaica is a tour de force of
fieldwork-based scholarship but it keeps its fieldwork in service
to bigger ambitions, illustrating what the built environment says
about the most central social and economic issues of the era.”—Mary
Corbin Sies, University of Maryland
Won an Honorable Mention in the Architecture & Urban Planning
category for the 2017 American Publishers Awards for Professional &
Scholarly Excellence (PROSE).
*PROSE*
Winner of the 2017 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize given by the
Foundation for Landscape Studies.
*Foundation for Landscape Studies*
Winner of the 2017 Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize given by the
Vernacular Architecture Forum.
*Vernacular Architecture Forum*
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