Building the New World keyword-global-history revealing a web of concealment

revealing a web of concealment and corruption involving senior politicians

the multiplicity of modernisms

Oscillating provocatively between Frankfurt and Paris and between a number of different styles and modes of expression

Delusions and Discoveries authoritatively surveys the mix of racist and jingoistic prejudices that dominated the writings of Anglo-Indians from Flora Annie Steele and Maud Diver to Kipling and beyond

Building the New World keyword-global-history revealing a web of concealmentThe period between 1930 and 1960 in particular saw a dramatic upsurge in Latin American modern architecture as the various governments strove to make public their modernising intentions. After 1960, however, the year in which Brasilia was inaugurated, economic growth in the region slowed and the modernist project faltered. The English speaking world, which had previously admired Latin American buildings, began to write them out of the history of