Inner empire : architecture and imperialism in the British Isles, 1550-1950 / edited by G. A. Bremner and Daniel Maudlin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maudlin, Daniel, editor.

Bremner, Alex, editor.

Series:

Studies in Imperialism Series

Studies in imperialism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Great Britain--History.

Architecture.

Architecture, Colonial--History.

Architecture, Colonial.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 341 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits, plates; digital file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Biography/History:

G. A. Bremner is Professor of Architectural History at the University of Edinburgh.

Daniel Maudlin is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Plymouth.

Summary:

This book presents for the first time a coherent analysis of the British Isles as an imperial setting understood through its buildings, spaces, and infrastructure. It considers 'internal' colonisation and its infrastructures of order and suppression, alongside wider relationships between architecture, imperialism, and cultural identity.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

List of plates

List of figures

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The architectural historiography of ‘inner empire’

Part I: The inner empire

Cultivation, constructed environments, and cultural conflict: Plantations and the inner empire

Making North Britain: infrastructure projects and the forcible integration of the Scottish Highlands

‘Housing the Poorest Poor’: the Irish other in nineteenth-century Liverpool

Architecture of the state in Ireland: the colonial question, 1800–1922

Studied indifference: eighteenth-century Irish architecture in modern British architectural histories

Part II: Empire building in Britain

An empire under construction: the view from inside East India House

Foreign mud, home comforts: Taipans, opium, and the remitted wealth of Jardine, Matheson & Co. in Scotland

Spaces of empire in Victorian and Edwardian London

Australia House: shaping Dominion status in the imperial capital, 1907–63

Empire timbers: architecture, trade, and forestry, 1920–50

How to live in Britain: the Indian YMCA in Fitzroy Square

Index

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781526142672

1526142678

OCLC:

1467877108