Colonial
When the Europeans settled in North America, they brought their architectural traditions and construction techniques for building. The oldest buildings in America show surviving examples. Construction was dependent upon the available resources: wood and brick are the common elements of English buildings in New England, the Mid-Atlantic, and coastal South. It is also brought the conquest, occupation, and displacement of the indigenous peoples in their homeland, and their dwelling and settlement construction techniques devalued. The colonizers appropriated territories and sites for new forts, dwellings, missions and churches, and agriculture.
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Famous quotes containing the word colonial:
“Are you there, Africa with the bulging chest and oblong thigh? Sulking Africa, wrought of iron, in the fire, Africa of the millions of royal slaves, deported Africa, drifting continent, are you there? Slowly you vanish, you withdraw into the past, into the tales of castaways, colonial museums, the works of scholars.”
—Jean Genet (1910–1986)
“The North will at least preserve your flesh for you; Northerners are pale for good and all. There’s very little difference between a dead Swede and a young man who’s had a bad night. But the Colonial is full of maggots the day after he gets off the boat.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)
“In colonial America, the father was the primary parent. . . . Over the past two hundred years, each generation of fathers has had less authority than the last. . . . Masculinity ceased to be defined in terms of domestic involvement, skills at fathering and husbanding, but began to be defined in terms of making money. Men had to leave home to work. They stopped doing all the things they used to do.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)