Imperial Cities Landscape, Display and Identity,9780719064975

Imperial Cities Landscape, Display and Identity

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Edition: Illus.
ISBN13: 9780719064975
ISBN10: 071906497X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-07-10
Publisher(s): Manchester University Press
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Summary

The fifteen essays in this book explore the influence of imperialism in a range of urban centres, including London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Marseilles, Glasgow and Seville. The first part on "imperial landscapes" is devoted to large-scale architectural schemes and monuments, including the Queen Victoria Memorial in London and the Vittoriano in Rome. In the second part, the focus is on imperial display throughout the city, from spectacular exhibitions and ceremonies, to more private displays of empire in suburban gardens. The final part considers the changing cultural and political identities in the imperial city, looking particularly at nationalism, masculinity and anti-imperialism.

Author Biography

Felix Driver is Reader in Geography, and David Gilbert is Senior Lecturer in Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
vii
General editor's introduction xi
Notes on contributors xiii
Acknowledgements xvii
Imperial cities: overlapping territories, intertwined histories
1(20)
Felix Driver
David Gilbert
Part I Imperial landscapes
`A grand work of noble conception': the Victoria Memorial and imperial London
21(19)
Tori Smith
Empire in modern Rome: shaping and remembering an imperial city, 1870-1911
40(24)
David Atkinson
Denis Cosgrove
Anna Notaro
Capitale du plaisir: the remaking of imperial Paris
64(14)
Claire Hancock
The Potemkin city:tourist images of late imperial Vienna
78(18)
Jill Steward
Imperial visions:rebuilding the Bank of England, 1919-39
96(21)
Iain Black
Part II Imperial display
Staging the imperial city:the Pageant of London, 1911
117(19)
Deborah S. Ryan
`Capital of the Colonies':real and imagined boundaries between metropole and empire in 1920s Marseilles
136(19)
Yael Simpson Fletcher
Commemorating empire in twentieth-century Seville
155(19)
Anthony Gristwood
Portable iron structures and uncertain colonial spaces at the Sydenham Crystal Palace
174(20)
Andrew Hassam
`The scenery of the torrid zone': imagined travels and the culture of exotics in nineteenth-century British gardens
194(21)
Rebecca Preston
Part III Imperial identities
`The Second City of the Empire': Glasgow - imperial municipality
215(23)
John M. MacKenzie
Sartorial spectacle:clothing and masculine identities in the imperial city, 1860-1914
238(16)
Christopher Breward
Anti-imperial London: the Pan-African Conference of 1900
254(14)
Jonathan Schneer
Afterword. Postcolonial times: the visible and the invisible 268(5)
Bill Schwarz
Index 273

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