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influences of the American loyalists on Bahamian architecture

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Date Issued:
1995
Summary:
The architecture of the Bahamas was affected by the influx of fleeing American loyalists to that country in the late 1700s. They imported the Georgian style of architecture to the Bahamas popular in southern America's colonial towns. Fallacies over the exact nature of many Bahamian structures have dominated many discourses on this subject. By tracing the direct line of influence, using old, colonial structures these mistakes can be rectified. The loyalists managed to reshape the Bahamian capital of Nassau and develop many of the small Out Islands. Although their influence lasted only a short while, the loyalists altered the nature of the identity of the Bahamian people.
Title: The influences of the American loyalists on Bahamian architecture.
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Name(s): Whidden, Astrid Melzner.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Curl, Donald W., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1995
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 169 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: The architecture of the Bahamas was affected by the influx of fleeing American loyalists to that country in the late 1700s. They imported the Georgian style of architecture to the Bahamas popular in southern America's colonial towns. Fallacies over the exact nature of many Bahamian structures have dominated many discourses on this subject. By tracing the direct line of influence, using old, colonial structures these mistakes can be rectified. The loyalists managed to reshape the Bahamian capital of Nassau and develop many of the small Out Islands. Although their influence lasted only a short while, the loyalists altered the nature of the identity of the Bahamian people.
Identifier: 15148 (digitool), FADT15148 (IID), fau:11921 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1995.
Subject(s): Architecture--Bahamas
American loyalists--Bahamas
Architecture--North Carolina
Architecture--South Carolina
Bahamas--History
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