
Imperial Cities
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- Front matter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- General editor's introduction
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Imperial cities: overlapping territories, intertwined histories
- PART I: Imperial landscapes
- 'A grand work of noble conception': the Victoria Memorial and imperial London
- Empire in modern Rome: shaping and remembering an imperial city, 1870-1911
- Capitale du plaisir:: the remaking of imperial Paris
- The Potemkin city: tourist images of late imperial Vienna
- Imperial visions: rebuilding the Bank of England, 1919-39
- PART II: Imperial display
- Staging the imperial city: The Pageant of London, 1911
- 'Capital of the Colonies': real and imagined boundaries between metropole and empire in 1920s Marseilles
- Commemorating empire in twentieth-century Seville
- Portable iron structures and uncertain colonial spaces at the Sydenham Crystal Palace
- 'The scenery of the torrid zone': imagined travels and the culture of exotics in nineteenth-century British gardens
- PART III: Imperial identities
- 'The Second City of the Empire': Glasgow - imperial municipality
- Sartorial spectacle: clothing and masculine identities in the imperial city, 1860-1914
- Anti-imperial London: the Pan-African Conference of 1900
- Afterword: Postcolonial times: the visible and the invisible
- Index
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