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End: August 15, 2021
Contact: paulniell@gmail.com

We welcome proposals for an edited volume on the architectures of extraction in the Atlantic  World from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Please submit abstracts of no more than 500  words by August 15, 2021 to paulniell@gmail.com and luisgordopelaez@csufresno.edu. 

The development of the Atlantic World after 1492 led to a growth in cities, agricultural districts,  populations, trade, and material wealth as a result of mining, agricultural, and manufacturing  industries that linked Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas together in completely new ways.  This process happened in and through a built environment that allowed it to grow and flourish.  Extraction drove construction in a variety of forms from buildings and technologies  indispensable for the mining and processing of natural resources (silver refining plants, sugar  mills, boiling houses, and water infrastructures) to constructions for storage, commercial  exchange, and coining (mints, treasuries, market spaces, and custom houses). Colonial industries  were made possible by another complementary architectural body: the residential quarters of  those who labored in or benefited from this landscape of extraction (slave barracks, sheds, and  country houses of planters and mine-owners). There were also the infrastructures designed to  provide some modicum of physical care such as hospitals or those engaged in spiritual matters  like churches whatever roles they could be said to play in landscapes of extraction.

Please email paulniell@gmail.com and luisgordopelaez@csufresno.edu for full submission guidelines.