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Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display and Identity

By Felix Driver (editor) , David Gilbert (editor)

Book information

Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
1999
ISBN
0719054133, 9780719054136
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6687730 bytes)
Series
Studies in Imperialism
Pages
283\302
Time added
2022-01-20 07:44:43

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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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