Overview

Inner Empire explores the impact of imperial cultures on the landscapes and urban environments of the British Isles from the sixteenth century through to the twentieth century. It asserts that Britain's four-hundred year entanglement with global empire left its mark upon the British Isles as much as it did the wider world. Buildings stood as one of the most conspicuous manifestations of the myriad relationships that Britain maintained with the theory and practice of colonialism in its modern history. Divided into two main sections, the volume's content considers 'internal' colonisation and its infrastructures of control, order, and suppression, alongside wider relationships between architecture, the imperial economy, and cultural identity. Taken together, the essays in this volume present for the first time a coherent analysis of the British Isles as an imperial setting understood through its buildings, spaces, and infrastructure.

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Author:   Daniel Maudlin ,  Alex Bremner
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.709kg
ISBN:  

9781526194831

ISBN 10:   152619483
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   20 January 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Architectural Historiography of ‘Inner Empire’ Part I: The Inner Empire 1. Cultivation, Constructed Environments, and Cultural Conflict: Plantations and the Inner Empire J. P. Montaño 2.Making North Britain: Infrastructure Projects and the Forcible Integration of the Scottish Highlands Daniel Maudlin 3. ‘Housing the Poorest Poor’: the Irish Other in Nineteenth-Century Liverpool John Belchem 4.Architecture of the State in Ireland: The Colonial Question, 1800–1922 Richard Butler 5. Studied Indifference: Eighteenth-century Irish Architecture in Modern British Architectural Histories Conor Lucey Part II: Empire Building in Britain 6.An Empire Under Construction: The View from Inside East India House Emily Mann 7. Foreign Mud, Home Comforts: Taipans, Opium, and the Remitted Wealth of Jardine, Matheson & Co. in Scotland G. A. Bremner 8. Spaces of Empire in Victorian and Edwardian London Richard Dennis 9. Australia House: Shaping Dominion Status in the Imperial Capital, 1907-63 Eileen Chanin 10. Empire Timber: Architecture, Trade, and Forestry, 1920-1950 Neal Shasore 11. How to Live in Britain: The Indian YMCA in Fitzroy Square Mark Crinson -- .

Reviews

'Inner Empire is a very welcome addition to the field of (post-)colonial and imperial studies, area studies, and subaltern studies and critique. Within its transdisciplinary correspondence, it expands on aspects of architectural and urban planning histories which constitutes a meaningful contribution to the current state of study.’ Liora Bigon, Ariel University -- .

Author Information

G. A. Bremner is Professor of Architectural History at the University of Edinburgh Daniel Maudlin is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Plymouth

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