Coleridge, Material Culture, and Malta

Palmer, Russell

doi:10.1080/0895769x.2014.880145

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“…The inhabitants of each, although different, were regarded as “South Europeans” by their imperial administrations and race per se did not play the same kind of roles as in other colonies (Frendo, 1988, p. 186; Goodwin, 2015, p. 83; see Chircop, 2015, pp. 15–21 and Palmer, 2014, p. 8 on British racial characterization in Malta, Gallant, 2002, pp. 15–55 in the Ionian Islands, and Varnava, 2009, pp.…”

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The Globalization of Penal Space in Nineteenth‐Century Malta

Palmer¹

2021

J Historical Sociology

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In the second half of the nineteenth century an unprecedented number of prisons were built across the Western‐influenced world. However, many more developed from repurposed and modified buildings. By applying space syntax analysis to examples from the then British colony of Malta, this article investigates the commonalities of penal space across a series of purpose‐built and refashioned prisons, taking into consideration key architectural phases resulting from remodelling. Rejecting the notion that Maltese developments are merely symptomatic of British colonialism, the spread of Western prisons is cast in terms of wider trends and the global spread of a particular type of penal space.

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The Globalization of Penal Space in Nineteenth‐Century Malta

Palmer¹

2021

J Historical Sociology

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“…What primarily impressed the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), when he travelled to Malta in 1804 for a two-year posting as undersecretary (and later public secretary) to the Civil Commissioner of Malta, was the shining buildings erected in "sand-free stone" around the Grand Harbour of Malta [1]. As Blouet recounts, "As he starts to explore Valletta and the urban environment around the harbors, Coleridge is bewildered at the Maltese use of limestone for every kind of construction-house, street, and wall-a centuries-old tradition born from the lack of other natural resources on the island [2]" [3] (p. 6).…”

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Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Textural Properties of the Lower Globigerina Limestone Used in the Built Heritage

Bianco

2021

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The Lower Globigerina Limestone Member, the oldest member of the Globigerina Limestone Formation, outcrops over most of the Maltese archipelago, notably Malta. It has provided the islands’ main building material since the Neolithic period. This paper makes available a corpus of findings relating to the geochemistry, mineralogy and textural properties of this limestone—mostly unpublished and undertaken nearly three decades ago—which provide a useful source to understand its behavior. Bulk chemistry and mineralogy showed that non-carbonate and clay content is higher in limestone of inferior quality. Textural analyses gave insight into the fabric of the matrix, including inter- and intra-particle porosity. These analyses were supplemented by an array of petrophysical tests, including color (a parameter which has a correlation with density and Fe2O3 content), ultrasonic pulse velocity and compressive strength. The findings not only give insight into the composition of the limestone, using insoluble residue content of ≥5% as the threshold of inferior quality lithotype, but provided an insight into the physico-mechanical bonding present, a characteristic which has a bearing on the deterioration of this limestone.

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Coleridge, Material Culture, and Malta

Cited by 2 publications

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The Globalization of Penal Space in Nineteenth‐Century Malta

The Globalization of Penal Space in Nineteenth‐Century Malta

Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Textural Properties of the Lower Globigerina Limestone Used in the Built Heritage

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