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City planning -- Europe.
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Imperialism.
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Cities and towns -- Europe.
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| Descript |
1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations (black & white), maps, plans; digital, PDF file(s). |
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text txt |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
| Contents |
1. Imperial cities: overlapping territories, intertwined histories / Felix Driver & David Gilbert -- 2. 'A grand work of noble conception': the Victoria Memorial and imperial London / Tori Smith -- 3. Empire in modern Rome: shaping and remembering an imperial city, 1870-1911 / David Atkinson, Denis Cosgrove & Anna Notaro -- 4. Capitale du plasir: the remaking of imperial Paris / Claire Hancock -- 5. The Potemkin city: tourist images of late imperial Vienna / Jill Steward -- 6. Imperial visions: rebuilding the Bank of England 1919-39 / Iain Black -- 7. Staging the imperial city: the Pageant of London, 1911 / Deborah S. Ryan -- 8. 'Capital of the Colonies': real and imagined boundaries between metropole and empire in 1920s Marseilles / Yael Simpson Fletcher -- 9. Commemorating empire in twentieth-century Seville / Anthony Gristwood -- 10. Portable iron structures and uncertain colonial spaces at the Sydenham Crystal Palace / Andrew Hassam -- 11. 'The scenery of the torrid zone': imagined travels and the culture of the exotics in nineteenth century British gardens / Rebecca Preston -- 12. 'The Second City of the Empire': Glasgow - imperial municipality / John M. MacKenzie -- 13. Sartorial spectacle: clothing and masculine identities in the imperial city, 1860-1914 / Christopher Breward -- 14. Anti-imperial London: the Pan-African Conference of 1900 / Jonathan Schneer -- Afterword - Postcolonial times: the visible and the invisible / Bill Schwartz -- Index. |
| Note |
In English. |
| Alt author |
Driver, Felix, editor.
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Gilbert, David, 1960- editor.
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Manchester University Press, Publisher.
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| ISBN |
9781526117953 (eBook) |
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9781526117960 (eBook) |
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9780719054136 (hardback) |
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9780719064975 (paperback) |
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