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Settlements in the Americas: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Ralph Bennett, ed. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1993. 290 pages, index.

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Architects and city planners are joined by historians in this volume to share very different insights into the history, form, and operation of New World settlements. Topics include the role of Indian labor in Central American Spanish colonies, the Quaker agricultural economy, the frail agricultural base of the Tidewater region, and France's North American colonies.

Contents:

• Ralph Bennett, "Introduction"
• George Kubler, "Cities of Latin America since Discovery"
  
• Humberto Rodríguez-Camilloni, "Utopia Realized in the New World: Form and Symbol of the City of Kings"
  
• Sidney David Markman, "Extinct, Fossilized, and Transformed Pueblos de Indios in the Reino de Guatemala, 1540-ca.1800"
  
• Graziano Gasparini, "The Pre-Hispanic Grid System: The Urban Shape of Conquest and Territorial Organization"
  
• Stanford Anderson, "Savannah and the Issue of Precedent: City Plan as Resource"
  
• Barry J. Levy, "Notable Settlements of Radical Domesticity: Northwest British Quakers in Rural Pennsylvania, 1681-1780"
  
• Lois Green Carr, "Rural Settlements in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake"
  
• Dora P. Crouch, "Roman and Spanish Colonization"
  
• Gilbert A. Stelter, "Military Considerations and Colonial Town Planning: France and New France in the Seventeenth Century"
  
• Karen Ordahl Kupperman, "A Puritan Colony in the Tropics: Providence Island, 1630-1641"
  
• Michael J. Craton, "Hope Town and Hard Bargain: The Loyalist Transformation in the Bahamas"