Title & Author:

Imperial cities : landscape, display and identity / edited by Felix Driver and David Gilbert.

Publication:

Manchester [England] ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Description:

xvii, 283 pages : illustrations, map, plan ; 25 cm.

Series:

Studies in imperialism

Notes:
This "book has its origins in a research project at Royal Holloway, University of London ... [that] was concluded with a major international conference on the theme of imperial cities in May 1997. Earlier versions of most of the chapters were presented at the conference"--Acknowledgements.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 / Yal︠ 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.
English.

Summary:

"Imperial cities explores the influence of imperialism in the landscapes of modern European cities. Many cities still display unmistakable signs of their imperial past, not only in their architecture and monuments, but also in the ways in which their identities are constructed by their inhabitants and by international tourists. The contributions to Imperial cities develop new perspectives on the history of imperialism and European urbanism, showing how the form, use and representation of these cities cannot be understood without reference to their place in the wider world order."--Jacket.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

0719054133
9780719054136
9780719064975
071906497X

Subject:

Europa
City planning Europe History Congresses.
City planning Political aspects Europe Congresses.
Imperialism History Congresses.
Impérialisme Histoire Congrès.
City planning
City planning Political aspects
Imperialism
Kongress
Geschichte
Imperialismus
Kunst
Stadtplanung
Städtebau
Aufsatzsammlung
Stedenbouw.
Bouwkunst.
Imperialisme.
Ciutats Europa Congressos.
Imperialisme Història Congressos.
Urbanisme Aspectes polítics Congressos.
Cities and towns Europe History.
City planning Europe History.
Europe

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Kongress.
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Books.

Added entries:

Driver, Felix.
Gilbert, David, 1960-
Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 211197
Call No.: NA9183 .I5 1999
Status: Available