Architecture of Empire : France in India & Southeast Asia, 1664–1962 - HARDBACK

McGill-Queen's University Press

The Architecture of EmpireFrance in India and Southeast Asia, 16641962\nAuthor(s): Gauvin Alexander Bailey\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada\nImprint: McGill-Queen's University Press\nISBN-13: 9780228011422, 978-0228011422\nSynopsis\nMost monumental buildings of Frances 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.\n\nThe 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, the largest colony France ever administered in Asia. Offering a sweeping panorama of the buildings of Frances colonial project, this is the first study to encompass the architecture of both the ancien rgime and modern empires, from the founding of the French trading compa.