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.…mehr
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.
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
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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