Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display and Identity

Front matter
Contents
List of illustrations
General editor's introduction
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Imperial cities: overlapping territories, intertwined histories
PART I: Imperial landscapes
	‘A grand work of noble conception’: the Victoria Memorial and imperial London
	Empire in modern Rome: shaping and remembering an imperial city, 1870–1911
	Capitale du plaisir:: the remaking of imperial Paris
	The Potemkin city: tourist images of late imperial Vienna
	Imperial visions: rebuilding the Bank of England, 1919–39
PART II: Imperial display
	Staging the imperial city: The Pageant of London, 1911
	‘Capital of the Colonies’: real and imagined boundaries between metropole and empire in 1920s Marseilles
	Commemorating empire in twentieth-century Seville
	Portable iron structures and uncertain colonial spaces at the Sydenham Crystal Palace
	‘The scenery of the torrid zone’: imagined travels and the culture of exotics in nineteenth-century British gardens
PART III: Imperial identities
	‘The Second City of the Empire’: Glasgow – imperial municipality
	Sartorial spectacle: clothing and masculine identities in the imperial city, 1860–1914
	Anti-imperial London: the Pan-African Conference of 1900
	Afterword: Postcolonial times: the visible and the invisible
Index