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- Architecture and Urbanism in Early Modern Palermo
- Architecture and Urbanism in Early Modern Palermo
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Author’s Note
- Selected Viceroys of Sicily
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Global Rearview
- Part II Uncertain Futures
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 October 2026
Book contents
- Architecture and Urbanism in Early Modern Palermo
- Architecture and Urbanism in Early Modern Palermo
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Author’s Note
- Selected Viceroys of Sicily
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Global Rearview
- Part II Uncertain Futures
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The Introduction situates early modern Palermo within its global context, considering how the city’s geographical and cultural entanglements contributed to its historiographical exclusion. From early modernity to modernity, it describes, conditions of globality and coloniality fueled Palermo’s marginalization – and even its racialization. Against this backdrop, Palermo’s capacity for change is conceptualized as an index of its "elasticity," an analytical paradigm intended to describe the cultural practices of mixing endemic to early modern cities remade by global empire.
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- Architecture and Urbanism in Early Modern PalermoBuilding an Elastic City, pp. 1 - 20Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2026
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