Imperial Cities
Landscape, Display and Identity
1st Edition
Published on 1. March 2017
304 pages
978-1-5261-1796-0 (ISBN)
Description
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
Illustrations
Illustrations, black & white
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-1796-0 (9781526117960)
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07/2003
Manchester University Press
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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
- 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
