Imperial cities : landscape, display and identity / edited by Felix Driver and David Gilbert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Driver, Felix, editor.

Gilbert, David, 1960- editor.

Series:

Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)

Studies in imperialism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Europe.

City planning.

Imperialism.

Cities and towns--Europe.

Cities and towns.

Public architecture--Europe.

Public architecture.

Imperialism in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 283 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2003.

Summary:

This work explores the influence of imperialism in the landscapes of modern European cities. Many still have signs of their imperial past in their architecture and monuments as well as in the way their identities are understood.

Contents:

Imperial cities : overlapping territories, intertwined histories / Felix Driver and David Gilbert

'A grand work of noble conception' : the Victoria Memorial and imperial London / Tori Smith

Empire in modern Rome : shaping and remembering an imperial city, 1870-1911 / David Atkinson, Denis Cosgrove and Anna Notaro

Capitale du plaisir : the remaking of imperial Paris / Claire Hancock

The Potemkin city : tourist images of late imperial Vienna / Jill Steward

Imperial visions : rebuilding the Bank of England, 1919-39 / Iain Black

Staging the imperical city : the Pageant of London, 1911 / Deborah S. Ryan

'Capital of the colonies' : real and imagined boundaries between metropole and empire in 1920s Marseilles / Yal Simpson Fletcher

Commemorating empire in twentieth-century Seville / Anthony Gristwood

Portable iron structures and uncertain colonial spaces and the Sydenham Crystal Palace / Andrew Hassam

'The scenery of the torrid zone' : imagined travels and the culture of exotics in nineteenth-century British gardens /Rebecca Preston

'The second city of the Empire' : Glasgow

imperial municipality / John M. MacKenzie

Sartorial spectacle : clothing and masculine identities in the imperial city, 1860-1914 / Christopher Breward

Anti-imperial London : the Pan-African Conference of 1900 / Jonathan Schneer.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

1232849174