Gad 2018. Halfcloth, 262 pp. Nice, clean copy.
Cities and landscapes in The Virgin Islands of The United States.
In
1917, the Danish West Indies were sold to the United States, but traces
of the often violent history shared by Denmark and the islands can be
seen everywhere. The Built environment and the landscape culture of the
islands are globally unique. The towns, the forts, the hundreds of
plantation ruins, the many churches and school buildings, and the
landscape of the US Virgin Islands in its entirety constitute a monument
to the age of slavery, an age in which Danes were colonial masters and,
for better or worse, created a lasting legacy in the West Indies. These
features serve as reminders of a time when the moderne society of the
US Virgin Islands began to take shape.WHEN ARCHITECTURE TELLS THE STORY
describes a large number of localities typical of the architecture and
landscape of the former Danish West Indies. At the same time, these
places are important points of access to understanding the history of
the islands and the people who populated them, including the masons who
built the forts, the architects behind the city plans and the schools,
the cartographers, the officials of the Danish West India-Guinea Company
and the government, the plantation owners, the enslaved, and the free
colored carpenters.