Architecture and urbanism in the British Empire 1st Edition by G A Bremner 0198713320 978-0198713326

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ISBN 10: 0198713320 

ISBN 13: 978-0198713326

Author: G. A. Bremner

 Throughout today’s postcolonial world, buildings, monuments, parks, streets, avenues, entire cities even, remain as witness to Britain’s once impressive if troubled imperial past. These structures are a conspicuous and near inescapable reminder of that past, and therefore, the built heritage of Britain’s former colonial empire is a fundamental part of how we negotiate our postcolonial identities, often lying at the heart of social tension and debate over how that identity is best represented.
This volume provides an overview of the architectural and urban transformations that took place across the British Empire between the seventeenth and mid-twentieth centuries. Although much research has been carried out on architecture and urban planning in Britain’s empire in recent decades, no single, comprehensive reference source exists. The essays compiled here remedy this deficiency. With its extensive chronological and regional coverage by leading scholars in the field, this volume will quickly become a seminal text for those who study, teach, and research the relationship between empire and the built environment in the British context. It provides an up-to-date account of past and current historiographical approaches toward the study of British imperial and colonial architecture and urbanism, and will prove equally useful to those who study architecture and urbanism in other European imperial and transnational contexts.

Table of contents: 

PART I. THEMES IN BRITISH IMPERIAL AND COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM

1. Beginnings: Early Colonial Architecture
2. Urbanism and Master Planning: Configuring the Colonial City
3. Stones of Empire: Monuments, Memorials, and Manifest Authority
4. The Metropolis: Imperial Buildings and Landscapes in Britain
5. Propagating Ideas and Institutions: Religious and Educational Architecture
6. Imperial Modernism

PART II. REGIONAL CONTINUITY, DIVERGENCE, AND VARIATION IN THE BRITISH WORLD

7. British North America and the West Indies
8. South and South East Asia
9. The Australian Colonies
10. New Zealand and the Pacific
11. Sub-Saharan Africa
12. Egypt and Mandatory Palestine and Iraq

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