Imperial cities : landscape, display and identity

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Imperial cities : landscape, display and identity

edited by Felix Driver and David Gilbert

(Studies in imperialism / general editor, John M. MacKenzie)

Manchester University Press, 1999

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

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. -- .

目次

  • Imperial cities: overlapping territories, intertwined histories, Felix Driver, David Gilbert. Imperial landscapes: "a grand work of noble conception" - London's Queen Victoria Memorial and imperial space, Tori Smith
  • empire in modern Rome - shaping and remembering an imperial city, 1870-1911, David Atkinson et al
  • la 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, 1919-1939, Iain Black. Imperial display: staging the imperial city - the pageant of London, 1911, Deborah Ryan
  • "capital of the colonies" - real and imagined boundaries between metropole and empire in 1920s Marseilles, Yael Simpson Fletcher
  • commemorating empire in 20th century Seville, Anthony Gristwood
  • portable iron structures and uncertain colonial spaces at the Sydenham Crystal Palace, Andrew Hassam
  • "the scenery of the torrid zone" - imagined travels and the culture of exotics within 19th century British gardens. Imperial identities: "the second city of the empire" - Glasgow, imperial municipality, John 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
  • afterword - postcolonial times -the visible and the invisible, Bill Schwarz.

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    general editor, John M. MacKenzie

    Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press

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