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Author:   Felix Driver ,  David Gilbert ,  Andrew Thompson ,  John MacKenzie
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9780719064975

ISBN 10:   071906497
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   10 July 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of 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 -- .

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This volume will certainly be original, scholarly and important. It is genuinely multi-disciplinary effort and . . . considers a very wide range of very important themes across the arts, humanities and social sciences. --Mike Hefferman, Loughborough University.<br>

This volume will certainly be original, scholarly and important. It is genuinely multi-disciplinary effort and . . . considers a very wide range of very important themes across the arts, humanities and social sciences. --Mike Hefferman, Loughborough University.

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Felix Driver is Reader in Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. David Gilbert is Senior Lecturer in Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London

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