Imperial cities
Subtitle: landscape, display and identity
By: edited by Felix Driver and David Gilbert.
Contributors: Driver, Felix.; Gilbert, David.
Series: Studies in imperialism; Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: City planning -- Europe -- History -- Congresses; City planning -- Political aspects -- Europe -- Congresses; Imperialism -- History -- Congresses; Imperialism; City planning -- Europe; Cities and towns -- Europe
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
This "book has its origins in a research project at Royal Holloway, University of London ... [that] was concluded with a major international conference on the theme of imperial cities in May 1997.  Earlier versions of most of the chapters were presented at the conference"--Acknowledgements.
Table of contents: title: Imperial cities : overlapping territories, intertwined histories / Felix Driver and David Gilbert; title: 'A grand work of noble conception' : the Victoria Memorial and imperial London / Tori Smith; title: Empire in modern Rome : shaping and remembering an imperial city, 1870-1911 / David Atkinson, Denis Cosgrove and Anna Notaro; title: Capitale du plaisir : the remaking of imperial Paris / Claire Hancock; title: The Potemkin city : tourist images of late imperial vienna / Jill Steward; title: Imperial visions : rebuilding the Bank of England, 1919-39 / Iain Black; title: Staging the imperical city : the Pageant of London, 1911 / Deborah S. Ryan; title: 'Capital of the colonies' : real and imagined boundaries between metropole and empire in 1920s Marseilles / Yal͡ Simpson Fletcher; title: Commemorating empire in twentieth-century Seville / Anthony Gristwood; title: Portable iron structures and uncertain colonial spaces and the Sydenham Crystal Palace / Andrew Hassam; title: 'The scenery of the torrid zone' : imagined travels and the culture of exotics in nineteenth-century British gardens /Rebecca Preston; title: 'The second city of the Empire' : Glasgow - imperial municipality / John M. MacKenzie; title: Sartorial spectacle : clothing and masculine identities in the imperial city, 1860-1914 / Christopher Breward; title: Anti-imperial London : the Pan-African Conference of 1900 / Jonathan Schneer.