Main entry:

Bremner, G. A., 1974- author. aut

Title & Author:

Building Greater Britain : architecture, imperialism, and the Edwardian Baroque Revival, c.1885 - 1920 / G.A. Bremner.

Publication:

London : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2022.
New Haven : Yale University Press
©2022

Description:

xi, 356 pages : illustrations (black and white and color), maps, plans ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-341) and index.
Styling Greater Britain: language, gender, and the Edwardian Baroque Revival -- Imperial decline?: anxiety, 'efficiency', and rebuilding state power -- Crimson threads: constructing Britishness in the dominions -- Building for eternity: Hebert Baker, the 'Grand Manner', and imperial patriotism -- The rule of law: legal imperialism and fabricating British justice -- In memoriam: monuments, memorials, and the architectonics of memory -- Asset building: global finance and the structures on gentlemanly capitalism -- Nerves and nodal points: communications and the formation of imperial networking.

Summary:

The Edwardian Baroque was the closest British architecture ever came to achieving an "imperial" style. With the aim of articulating British global power and prestige, it adorned civic and commercial structures both in Britain and in the wider British world, especially in the "white settler" Dominions of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and South Africa. Evoking the contemporary and emotive idea of "Greater Britain," this new book by distinguished historian G.A. Bremner represents a major, groundbreaking study of this intriguing architectural movement in Britain and its empire. It explores the Edwardian Baroque's significance as a response to the growing tide of anxiety over Britain's place in the world, its widely perceived geopolitical decline, and its need to bolster confidence in the face of the Great Power rivalries of the period. Cross-disciplinary in nature, it combines architectural, political, and imperial history and theory, providing a more nuanced and intellectually wide-ranging understanding of the Edwardian Baroque movement from a material culture perspective, including its foundation in notions of race and gender.

ISBN:

9781913107314 (hardback)
1913107310 (hardback)

Subject:

Architecture Great Britain History.
Imperialism.
Architecture, Edwardian Great Britain.
Imperialism and architecture Great Britain.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Impérialisme.
Architecture édouardienne Grande-Bretagne.
Impérialisme et architecture Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture
Architecture, Edwardian
Imperialism and architecture
Great Britain

Form/genre:

History
Informational works.
Illustrated works.
Documents d'information.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316988
Call No.: 316988
Copy: 1
Status: Available