Imperial cities : landscape, display and identity /: landscape, display and identity. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Felix Driver and David Gilbert.
• Other Names: Driver, Felix; Gilbert, David
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (304 pages)
• Subjects: 307.76094; City planning -- Europe -- History -- Congresses; City planning -- Political aspects -- Europe -- Congresses; Imperialism -- History -- Congresses; Imperialism; Cities and towns -- Europe; Public architecture -- Europe; Urbanisme -- Europe; Impérialisme; Villes -- Europe; Architecture publique -- Europe; Cities and towns; City planning; City planning -- Political aspects; Imperialism; Public architecture; Imperialismus; Stadtplanung; Aufsatzsammlung; Stadsplanning; Imperialisme; Bouwkunst; Europe; Aufsatzsammlung; Conference papers and proceedings; History; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526117960; 1526117967
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