Your Interlibrary Loan request has been sent by email in a PDF format. If this PDF arrives with an incorrect OCLC status, please contact lending located below. Concerning Copyright Restrictions The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted materials. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorize to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be “used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research”. If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purpose in excess of “fair use”, that user may be liable for copyright infringement. This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order if, in its judgment, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of copyright law. Interlibrary Loan Services: We Search the World for You…and Deliver! Interlibrary Loan Services The Florida State University 711 West Madison Street Tallahassee, Florida 32306-1005 Lending the FSU Collection: 850.644.4171 James Elliott- ILL- lend@reserves.lib.fsu.edu Borrowing for the FSU Community: 850.644.4466 Alicia Brown- ill@reserves.lib.fsu.edu Odyssey: 128.186.59.120 Fax: 850.644.3329 Ariel: 146.201.65.22 Urban space as heritage in late colonial Cuba: classicism and dissonance o... 1 of 1 http://www.cro3.org/content/53/08/53-3373.full Choice www.cro3.org doi: 10.5860/CHOICE.193181 CHOICE April 2016 vol. 53 no. 08 53-3373 NA804 CIP Niell, Paul. Urban space as heritage in late colonial Cuba: classicism and dissonance on the Plaza de Armas of Havana, 1754–1828. Texas, 2015. 326p bibl index afp ISBN 9780292766594 cloth, $55.00 [CC] The multivalence of public monuments is an important and current interpretive lens in architectural history. This book centers on Havana’s Plaza des Armas, after 1828 dominated by a substantial Doric-fronted temple called El Templete. The temple and the three monumental history paintings it houses mark the site in popular memory where the Spanish colonizers celebrated their first mass and undertook their first cabildo—town council—in 1517. But as Neill (Florida State Univ.) works through the chapters of the book to explain, identity in this space was neither monolithic nor stable. The author rightly interprets the construction of heritage in this case through the lens of the racial and political moment of its production; the assessment of an early modern, multiracial, colonial, slave-dependent context lends itself particularly well to this cause. That said, the book overreaches at times and wanders into peripheral and only tangentially related territory, especially in the opening chapters. As an effort to understand Cuban architecture as both a component of the larger Spanish Empire and a product of its immediate political condition, the book is an important contribution to the history of architecture in Cuba. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through researchers. --L. P. Nelson, University of Virginia Copyright 2016 American Library Association 5/25/2016 9:23 AM