Imperial Cities
Landscape, Display and Identity
Published on 10. July 2003
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Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-7190-6497-5 (ISBN)
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Imperial cities explores the influence of imperialism in the landscapes of modern European cities including London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Marseilles, Glasgow and Seville. Examines large-scale architectural schemes and monuments, including the Queen Victoria Memorial in London and the Vittoriano in Rome. Focuses on imperial display throughout the city, from spectacular exhibitions and ceremonies, to more private displays of empire in suburban gardens. Cconsiders the changing cultural and political identities in the imperial city, looking particularly at nationalism, masculinity and anti-imperialism. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations, black & white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
465 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-6497-5 (9780719064975)
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Persons
Felix Driver is Reader in Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. David Gilbert is Senior Lecturer in Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London -- .
Content
1. Imperial cities: overlapping territories, intertwined histories - Felix Driver & David Gilbert
2. 'A grand work of noble conception': the Victoria Memorial and imperial London - Tori Smith
3. Empire in modern Rome: shaping and remembering an imperial city, 1870-1911- David Atkinson, Denis Cosgrove & Anna Notaro
4. Capitale du plasir: the remaking of imperial Paris - Claire Hancock
5. The Potemkin city: tourist images of late imperial Vienna - Jill Steward
6. Imperial visions: rebuilding the Bank of England 1919-39 - Iain Black
7. Staging the imperial city: the Pageant of London, 1911- Deborah S. Ryan
8. 'Capital of the Colonies': real and imagined boundaries between metropole and empire in 1920s Marseilles - Yael Simpson Fletcher
9. Commemorating empire in twentieth-century Seville - Anthony Gristwood
10. Portable iron structures and uncertain colonial spaces at the Sydenham Crystal Palace - Andrew Hassam
11. 'The scenery of the torrid zone': imagined travels and the culture of the exotics in nineteenth century British gardens - Rebecca Preston
12. 'The Second City of the Empire': Glasgow - imperial municipality - John M. MacKenzie
13. Sartorial spectacle: clothing and masculine identities in the imperial city, 1860-1914 - Christopher Breward
14. Anti-imperial London: the Pan-African Conference of 1900 - Jonathan Schneer
Afterword - Postcolonial times: the visible and the invisible - Bill Schwartz
Index -- .
2. 'A grand work of noble conception': the Victoria Memorial and imperial London - Tori Smith
3. Empire in modern Rome: shaping and remembering an imperial city, 1870-1911- David Atkinson, Denis Cosgrove & Anna Notaro
4. Capitale du plasir: the remaking of imperial Paris - Claire Hancock
5. The Potemkin city: tourist images of late imperial Vienna - Jill Steward
6. Imperial visions: rebuilding the Bank of England 1919-39 - Iain Black
7. Staging the imperial city: the Pageant of London, 1911- Deborah S. Ryan
8. 'Capital of the Colonies': real and imagined boundaries between metropole and empire in 1920s Marseilles - Yael Simpson Fletcher
9. Commemorating empire in twentieth-century Seville - Anthony Gristwood
10. Portable iron structures and uncertain colonial spaces at the Sydenham Crystal Palace - Andrew Hassam
11. 'The scenery of the torrid zone': imagined travels and the culture of the exotics in nineteenth century British gardens - Rebecca Preston
12. 'The Second City of the Empire': Glasgow - imperial municipality - John M. MacKenzie
13. Sartorial spectacle: clothing and masculine identities in the imperial city, 1860-1914 - Christopher Breward
14. Anti-imperial London: the Pan-African Conference of 1900 - Jonathan Schneer
Afterword - Postcolonial times: the visible and the invisible - Bill Schwartz
Index -- .