كتاب
The master builders: structures of empire in the new world : Spanish initiatives and United States invention
| العنوان: | The master builders: structures of empire in the new world : Spanish initiatives and United States invention |
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| المؤلفون: | Fifer, J. Valerie. |
| بيانات النشر: | Bishop Auckland : Durham Academic, 1996. |
| سنة النشر: | 1996 |
| وصف مادي: | 320 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| سلاسل: | New perspectives on American history New perspectives on American history. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Imperialism., Comparative civilization., Social evolution. |
| جغرافية الموضوع: | United States -- Territorial expansion., Spain -- Colonies -- North America., Latin America -- Civilization., United States -- Civilization. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Part I: Spain's Compression Structure -- 1. The Spanish Initiative -- 2. Preparation for Empire: Early Construction Work on the Peninsula -- The Medieval Builders -- 3. Building the Castilian Compression Structure -- Strengthening the Structure -- New Institutional Tie-Beams -- Final Testing -- 4. Laying Out the First Site-Lines in the New World -- Initial Reconnaissance: Spain's Discovery of the West Atlantic and the Caribbean, 1492 -- 1519 -- 5. Design Enlargement -- The Need for Increased Compression -- The Implications of "Scaling Up" -- 6. Extending the Ground-Plan of Empire -- Continental Expansion: The Land and the Rivers, 1519 -- 1543 -- The Problems of Coordinating the Ground-Plan -- 7. Spain Crosses the Pacific: Delimiting the Western Perimeter of Empire -- The Insertion of a New Tie-Beam -- 8. Oceans Apart: Spain's Search for Certainty in the New World -- Weight and Mass -- Prestressing -- Beams and Cantilevers -- Joints -- Resilience and Fracture -- Spain's "Reduced Risk" Construction Policies: Administration, Church, Town, Immigration, Trade, Overland Transport; Its enduring perception as "interoceanic" travel -- 9. The Survival of Empire -- New Survey Work and New Construction -- Part II: The United States' Tension Structure -- 10. The English Initiative -- Laying Out the First Site-Lines and Starting Construction -- 11. The Failure of the First Tension Structure -- 12. A Newly Designed Tension Structure: The Invention of Federalism -- Utility -- Economy -- Expansion -- 13. Spain's Influence on the Early U.S. Perimeter Ground-Plan: Part I -- The Mississippi "Coast" -- 14. Spain's Influence on the Early U.S. Perimeter Ground-Plan: Part II -- The Development of Transoceanic Empire -- New England Enters the Pacific -- 15. The First Phase of Land Empire -- Spanning the Interior: The Problems of Diverging Styles of Construction, 1800-1860 -- New Bridging and Trussing Skills Strengthen the North and West -- Pseudo-Tension and Greater Compression Weaken the Deep South -- Echoes of Imperial Spain -- 16. The Extension of Land Empire in the Trans-Mississippi West -- Structural Engineering After the Civil War; Strengthening the Foundations, Supports, Spans and Surfaces -- The Structural Significance of the Work "Transcontinental" -- 17. After word and Conclusion -- Design and Construction in the New World -- Contrasts in Interpretation: Responses to Risk -- Contrast on the Peripheries of Empire -- Cross-bracing -- Maintaining and Strengthening the United States' Tension Structure: Structural Analysis -- Tension Structure: Structural Analysis -- Critical Load -- Americanization -- The Language Component. |
| Original Identifier: | ocm39108450 ocm36720257 ocm36522354 E179.5 .F54 1996 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-1-900838-01-6 1-900838-01-X |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes index. Includes bibliography: p. 289-310. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.007534814.4 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9781900838016 190083801X |
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