A comprehensive overview of the architectural and urban transformations that took place across the British Empire between the seventeenth and mid-twentieth centuries, exploring the built heritage of Britain's former colonial empire as a fundamental part of how we negotiate our postcolonial identities.
A comprehensive overview of the architectural and urban transformations that took place across the British Empire between the seventeenth and mid-twentieth centuries, exploring the built heritage of Britain's former colonial empire as a fundamental part of how we negotiate our postcolonial identities.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * 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
* Introduction * 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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