The age of empire : Britain's imperial architecture from 1880-1930 / Clive Aslet.

Main entry:

Aslet, Clive, 1955- author.

Title & Author:

The age of empire : Britain's imperial architecture from 1880-1930 / Clive Aslet.

Publication:

London : Aurum Press, [2015]
©2015

Description:

192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 192) and index.
Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Pomp and circumstance -- 2. To the far horizon -- and beyond -- 3. In splendour dressed -- 4. Ta-ra-ra boom de-ay -- 5. At the going down of the sun -- 6. Wider still and wider.

Summary:

Britain's industrial and imperial might financed an architectural golden age, which saw the Dickensian rookeries replaced with model housing; civic life improved through new town halls, bath houses and libraries; God glorified in new churches and cathedrals; Mammon pursued in banks, exchanges and commercial buildings; and the Empire celebrated in numerous sculptural projects around the globe. Through stunning images this book reveals the national confidence and prosperity that led to a new-found grandeur and scale in the architecture commissioned.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

1781312257 (hardback)
9781781312254 (hardback)

Subject:

Architecture Great Britain Colonies.
Architecture, British.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne Colonies.
Architecture britannique.
Great Britain

Form/genre:

Fiction.
Romans.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292495
Call No.: BIB 236813
Status: Available

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