Contents: Introduction : classicism : constructing the paradigm in continental Europe and Britain / Barbara Arciszewska -- 1. Popularism versus professionalism : John Summerson and the twentieth-century creation of the 'Georgian' / Elizabeth McKellar -- 2. 'A mockery of the surveyor's style'? : alternatives to Inigo Jones in seventeenth-century elite British architecture / Elizabeth V. Chew -- 3. From Burlington Gate to Billingsgate : James Ralph's attempt to impose Burlingtonian classicism as a canon of public taste / Matthew Craske -- 4. A 'Rarie-shew system of architecture' : bath and the cultural scenography of Palladianism / Carol Watts -- 5. Commercialization and backlash in late Georgian architecture / Daniel M. Abramson -- 6. Joseph Gandy and the politics of rustic charm / Andrew Ballantyne -- 7. Negotiating classicism in eighteenth-century Deptford and Philadelphia / Bernard L. Herman and Peter Guillery
8. Architectures of confidence? : Spanish Town, Jamaica, 1655-1792 / James Robertson
