Imperial Cities

Landscape, Display, and Identity

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Edited by Felix Driver and David Gilbert

Manchester University Press

Due/Published October 2003, 304 pages, paper

ISBN 071906497x

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.

Contents

Imperial Cities: Overlapping Territories, Intertwined Histories--Felix Driver & David Gilbert
'A Grand Work of Noble Conception': The Victoria Memorial and Imperial London--Tori Smith
Empire in Modern Rome: Shaping and Remembering An Imperial City, 1870-1911--David Atkinson, Denis Cosgrove & Anna Notaro
Capitale Du Plasir: The Remaking of Imperial Paris--Claire Hancock
The Potemkin City: Tourist Images of Late Imperial Vienna--Jill Steward
Imperial Visions: Rebuilding The Bank of England 1919-39--Iain Black
Staging the Imperial City: The Pageant of London, 1911--Deborah S. Ryan
 'Capital of the Colonies': Real and Imagined Boundaries Between Metropole and Empire in 1920s Marseilles--Yael Simpson Fletcher
Commemorating Empire in Twentieth-Century Seville--Anthony Gristwood
Portable Iron Structures and Uncertain Colonial Spaces At the Sydenham Crystal Palace--Andrew Hassam
'The Scenery of the Torrid Zone': Imagined Travels and the Culture of the Exotics in Nineteenth Century British Gardens--Rebecca Preston
'The Second City of the Empire': Glasgow--Imperial Municipality--John M. Mackenzie
Sartorial Spectacle: Clothing and Masculine Identities in the Imperial City, 1860-1914--Christopher Breward
Anti-Imperial London: The Pan-African Conference of 1900--Jonathan Schneer
Afterword--Postcolonial Times: The Visible and the Invisible--Bill Schwartz