Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display and IdentityFelix Driver, David Gilbert Manchester University Press, 17 oct. 2003 - 304 pages 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. |
Table des matières
Imperial cities overlapping territories intertwined histories | 1 |
A grand work of noble conception the Victoria Memorial and imperial London | 21 |
Empire in modern Rome shaping and remembering an imperial city 18701911 | 40 |
Capitale du plaisir the remaking of imperial Paris | 64 |
The Potemkin city tourist images of late imperial Vienna | 78 |
Imperial visions rebuilding the Bank of England 191939 | 96 |
Staging the imperial city the Pageant of London 1911 | 117 |
Capital of the Colonies real and imagined boundaries between metropole and empire in 1920s Marseilles | 136 |
Portable iron structures and uncertain colonial spaces at the Sydenham Crystal Palace | 174 |
The scenery of the torrid zone imagined travels and the culture of exotics in nineteenthcentury British gardens | 194 |
The Second City of the Empire Glasgow imperial municipality | 215 |
Sartorial spectacle clothing and masculine identities in the imperial city 18601914 | 238 |
Antiimperial London the PanAfrican Conference of 1900 | 254 |
Postcolonial times the visible and the invisible | 268 |
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Commemorating empire in twentiethcentury Seville | 155 |
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