Of Planting and Planning

<p><strong><em>‘At the centre of the world-economy one always finds an exceptional state strong aggressive and privileged dynamic simultaneously feared and admired.’ - </em>Fernand Braudel Civilization and Capitalism 15th–18th Centuries </strong></p><p>This surely is an apt description of the British Empire at its zenith.</p><p><em>Of Planting and Planning</em> explores how Britain used the formation of towns and cities as an instrument of colonial expansion and control throughout the Empire. Beginning with the seventeenth-century plantation of Ulster and ending with decolonization after the Second World War Robert Home reveals how the British Empire gave rise to many of the biggest cities in the world and how colonial policy and planning had a profound impact on the form and functioning of those cities.</p><p>This second edition retains the thematic chronological and interdisciplinary approach of the first each chapter identifying a key element of colonial town planning. New material and illustrations have been added incorporating the author's further research since the first edition. Most importantly Of Planting and Planning remains the only book to cover the whole sweep of British colonial urbanism.</p>