Imperial cities : landscape, display and identity
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Imperial cities : landscape, display and identity
(Studies in imperialism / general editor, John M. MacKenzie)
Manchester University Press, 1999
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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. -- .
Table of Contents
- 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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