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Author:   G. A. Bremner (Senior Lecturer in Architectural History, Senior Lecturer in Architectural History, University of Edinburgh)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.764kg
ISBN:  

9780198844051

ISBN 10:   0198844050
Pages:   496
Publication Date:   08 April 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction G. A. Bremner: Architecture, Urbanism, and British Imperial Studies PART I: Themes in British Imperial and Colonial Architecture and Urbanism 1: Daniel Maudlin: Beginnings: Early Colonial Architecture 2: Robert Home and Anthony D. King: Urbanism and Master Planning: Configuring the Colonial City 3: G. A. Bremner: Stones of Empire: Monuments, Memorials, and Manifest Authority 4: G. A. Bremner: The Metropolis: Imperial Buildings and Landscapes in Britain 5: G. A. Bremner and Louis P. Nelson: Propagating Ideas and Institutions: Religious and Educational Architecture 6: Mark Crinson: Imperial Modernism Part II Regional Continuity, Divergence, and Variation in the British World 7: Harold Kalman and Louis P. Nelson: British North America and the West Indies 8: Preeti Chopra: South and Southeast Asia 9: Stuart King and Julie Willis: The Australian Colonies 10: Ian Lochhead and Paul Walker: New Zealand and the Pacific 11: Iain Jackson and Ola Uduku: Sub-Saharan Africa 12: Samuel D. Albert: Egypt and Mandatory Palestine and Iraq

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this collection contains some stunning essays. * Tristram Hunt, Times Literary Supplement * The authors demonstrate how the British used the forces of urbanism and architecture to assert control over the empire, and the continued presence of many of these buildings today symbolises the permanence of British Influence ... launching new ventures into a huge field of study. * Graham Tite, Context *

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G. A. Bremner is Senior Lecturer in Architectural History at the University of Edinburgh. He researches the history and theory of Victorian architecture, specialising in British imperial and colonial architecture and urbanism. He has published widely on these subjects in a range of scholarly journals, including The Historical Journal, Architectural History, The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Modern Intellectual History, and The Journal of Historical Geography. His first book, Imperial Gothic: Religious Architecture and High Anglican Culture in the British Empire, c.1840-1870 (2013) was a ground-breaking study on the significance of ecclesiastical architecture in the formation of colonial society and culture, winning the 2013 Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion from the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.

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