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Book SynopsisAs explorations of the influence of imperialism in the landscapes of modern European cities, the 15 essays in this volume explore the influence of imperialism in a range of urban centres, including London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Marseilles, Glasgow and Seville.
Table of Contents1. Imperial cities: overlapping territories, intertwined histories - Felix Driver & David Gilbert
2. ‘A grand work of noble conception’: the Victoria Memorial and imperial London - Tori Smith
3. Empire in modern Rome: shaping and remembering an imperial city, 1870-1911- David Atkinson, Denis Cosgrove & Anna Notaro
4. Capitale du plasir: the remaking of imperial Paris - Claire Hancock
5. The Potemkin city: tourist images of late imperial Vienna - Jill Steward
6. Imperial visions: rebuilding the Bank of England 1919-39 - Iain Black
7. Staging the imperial city: the Pageant of London, 1911- Deborah S. Ryan
8. ‘Capital of the Colonies’: real and imagined boundaries between metropole and empire in 1920s Marseilles - Yael Simpson Fletcher
9. Commemorating empire in twentieth-century Seville - Anthony Gristwood
10. Portable iron structures and uncertain colonial spaces at the Sydenham Crystal Palace - Andrew Hassam
11. ‘The scenery of the torrid zone’: imagined travels and the culture of the exotics in nineteenth century British gardens - Rebecca Preston
12. ‘The Second City of the Empire’: Glasgow - imperial municipality - John M. MacKenzie
13. Sartorial spectacle: clothing and masculine identities in the imperial city, 1860-1914 - Christopher Breward
14. Anti-imperial London: the Pan-African Conference of 1900 - Jonathan Schneer
Afterword - Postcolonial times: the visible and the invisible - Bill Schwartz
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