Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: The Architecture of Empire 3
5. Ideology and Reality in the French Atlantic Empire 34
6. France and Amerindian Architecture, the Amerindian Reductions, and L'Affaire de Kourou 55
7. African Slaves and the Architecture of the French Atlantic Empire 93
8. Free People of Colour and the Architecture of the French Atlantic Empire 105
9. White Civilian Architects and Builders in the Colonies 119
10. Building pour la gloire du roi: The Royal Engineer Architects 148
11. Putting Their House in Order: Urban Idealism in France and the Seventeenth-Century Colonies 173
12. The Planned City in the French Atlantic World, 1700–1789 204
13. Urbanism in Eighteenth-Century Saint-Domingue and Public Monuments in the French Atlantic 241
14. Formal and Scientific Gardens and Ephemera 279
15. Secular Architecture before the Seven Years' War 323
16. Secular Architecture after the Seven Years' War 355
17. Tradition and Innovation in Church Architecture 385
18. Italianate Church Facades, Eclecticism, and Neoclassicism from Quebec to Senegal, 1654–1830 412
19. The Architecture of the Land: Vernacular Traditions 439
20. Epilogue: Circa 1830, the End of an Empire 481
21. Glossary 489
22. Timeline 495
23. Notes 497
24. Bibliography 585
25. Index 603