Imperial Cities

Author : Felix Driver,David Gilbert
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 071906497X

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Imperial Cities by Felix Driver,David Gilbert Pdf

The fifteen essays in this book explore the influence of imperialism in a range of urban centres, including London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Marseilles, Glasgow and Seville. The first part on "imperial landscapes" is devoted to large-scale architectural schemes and monuments, including the Queen Victoria Memorial in London and the Vittoriano in Rome. In the second part, the focus is on imperial display throughout the city, from spectacular exhibitions and ceremonies, to more private displays of empire in suburban gardens. The final part considers the changing cultural and political identities in the imperial city, looking particularly at nationalism, masculinity and anti-imperialism.

Author : Ulrich Hofmeister,Florian Riedler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000968842

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Imperial Cities in the Tsarist, the Habsburg, and the Ottoman Empires by Ulrich Hofmeister,Florian Riedler Pdf

This book explores the various ways imperial rule constituted and shaped the cities of Eastern Europe until the First World War in the Tsarist, Habsburg, and Ottoman empires. In these three empires, the cities served as hubs of imperial rule: their institutions and infrastructures enabled the diffusion of power within the empires while they also served as the stages where the empire was displayed in monumental architecture and public rituals. To this day, many cities possess a distinctively imperial legacy in the form of material remnants, groups of inhabitants, or memories that shape the perceptions of in- and outsiders. The contributions to this volume address in detail the imperial entanglements of a dozen cities from a long-term perspective reaching back to the eighteenth century. They analyze the imperial capitals as well as smaller cities in the periphery. All of them are "imperial cities" in the sense that they possess traces of imperial rule. By comparing the three empires of Eastern Europe this volume seeks to establish commonalities in this particular geography and highlight trans-imperial exchanges and entanglements. This volume is essential reading to students and scholars alike interested in imperial and colonial history, urban history and European history.

Author : Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999-04-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0824821963

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Chinese Imperial City Planning by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt Pdf

Chinese Imperial City Planning is the first synthesis of what is known from textual and archaeological evidence about every Chinese imperial capital, from earliest times to the present. It explains the fundamental architectural principles and visual characteristics of imperial planning in China and shows how these features are related to the Chinese idea of rulership. The volume also reconstructs the 3,500-year-old history of imperial planning using sources such as resident descriptions, travel accounts, official Chinese court records, and the most recent archaeological and scholarly studies. The extensive documentation provides students with a standard source of reference from which to embark on further research on Chinese urban planning.

Author : A. Geppert
Publisher : Springer
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230281837

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Fleeting Cities by A. Geppert Pdf

Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siècle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed, consumed and disputed in the European metropolis around 1900.

Author : Hamish Letterfriend
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781300082217

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The Adventurer's Guide to the Imperial City by Hamish Letterfriend Pdf

Author : Linda Cooke Johnson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1993-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438407982

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Cities of Jiangnan in Late Imperial China by Linda Cooke Johnson Pdf

This book examines cities of the Jiangnan region of south-central China between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries, an area considered to be the model of a successfully developing regional economy. The six studies focus on the urban centers of Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou, and Shanghai. Emphasizing the regional focus, the authors explore the interconnections and sequential relationships between these major cities and analyze common themes such as the development of handicraft industry, transport and commerce, class structure, ethnic diversity and internal immigration, and the social and political pressures generated by developments in manufacturing, taxes, and government politics. The book provides a valuable resource on commercial development and internal economic and social development in pre-modern China, particularly on specific regional development and the historical role of traditional Chinese cities.

Author : Susan Vandiver Nicassio
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226579740

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Imperial City by Susan Vandiver Nicassio Pdf

In 1798, the armies of the French Revolution tried to transform Rome from the capital of the Papal States to a Jacobin Republic. For the next two decades, Rome was the subject of power struggles between the forces of the Empire and the Papacy, while Romans endured the unsuccessful efforts of Napoleon’s best and brightest to pull the ancient city into the modern world. Against this historical backdrop, Nicassio weaves together an absorbing social, cultural, and political history of Rome and its people. Based on primary sources and incorporating two centuries of Italian, French, and international research, her work reveals what life was like for Romans in the age of Napoleon. “A remarkable book that wonderfully vivifies an understudied era in the history of Rome. . . . This book will engage anyone interested in early modern cities, the relationship between religion and daily life, and the history of the city of Rome.”—Journal of Modern History “An engaging account of Tosca’s Rome. . . . Nicassio provides a fluent introduction to her subject.”—History Today “Meticulously researched, drawing on a host of original manuscripts, memoirs, personal letters, and secondary sources, enabling [Nicassio] to bring her story to life.”—History

Author : J. Griffiths
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137385734

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Imperial Culture in Antipodean Cities, 1880-1939 by J. Griffiths Pdf

Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, this book explores how far imperial culture penetrated antipodean city institutions. It argues that far from imperial saturation, the city 'Down Under' was remarkably untouched by the Empire.

Author : Fassil Demissie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317991373

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Postcolonial African Cities by Fassil Demissie Pdf

The book focuses on contemporary African cities, caught in the contradiction of an imperial past and postcolonial present. The essays explore the cultural role of colonial architecture and urbanism in the production of meanings: in the inscription of power and discipline, as well as in the dynamic construction of identities. It is in these new dense urban spaces, with all their contradictions, that urban Africans are reworking their local identities, building families, and creating autonomous communities – made fragile by neo-liberal states in a globalizing world. The book offers a range of scholarly interpretations of the new forms of urbanity. It engages with issues, themes and topics including colonial legacies, postcolonial intersections, cosmopolitan spaces, urban reconfigurations, and migration which are at the heart of the continuing debate about the trajectory of contemporary African cities. The collection discusses contemporary African cities as diverse as Dar Es Salaam, Dakar, Johannesburg, Lagos and Kinshasa – offering new insights into the current state of postcolonial African cities. This was previously published as a special issue of African Identities.

Author : Jessica M. Kim
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469651354

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Imperial Metropolis by Jessica M. Kim Pdf

In this compelling narrative of capitalist development and revolutionary response, Jessica M. Kim reexamines the rise of Los Angeles from a small town to a global city against the backdrop of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Gilded Age economics, and American empire. It is a far-reaching transnational history, chronicling how Los Angeles boosters transformed the borderlands through urban and imperial capitalism at the end of the nineteenth century and how the Mexican Revolution redefined those same capitalist networks into the twentieth. Kim draws on archives in the United States and Mexico to argue that financial networks emerging from Los Angeles drove economic transformations in the borderlands, reshaped social relations across wide swaths of territory, and deployed racial hierarchies to advance investment projects across the border. However, the Mexican Revolution, with its implicit critique of imperialism, disrupted the networks of investment and exploitation that had structured the borderlands for sixty years, and reconfigured transnational systems of infrastructure and trade. Kim provides the first history to connect Los Angeles's urban expansionism with more continental and global currents, and what results is a rich account of real and imagined geographies of city, race, and empire.

Author : Noel Lenski,Noel Emmanuel Lenski
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812247770

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Constantine and the Cities by Noel Lenski,Noel Emmanuel Lenski Pdf

Roman Emperor Constantine raised Christianity from a minority religion to imperial status, but his religious orientation was by no means unambiguous. In Constantine and the Cities, Noel Lenski demonstrates how the emperor and his subjects used the instruments of government in a struggle for authority over the religion of the empire.

Author : Mark Humphries
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004422612

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Cities and the Meanings of Late Antiquity by Mark Humphries Pdf

This study examines how cities have become an area of significant historical debate about late antiquity, challenging accepted notions that it is a period of dynamic change and reasserting views of the era as one of decline and fall.

Author : Richard Arthur Brabazon Ponsonby-Fane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Capital
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010728652

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Imperial Cities by Richard Arthur Brabazon Ponsonby-Fane Pdf

Author : Joseph P. Huffman
Publisher : Early Medieval North Atlantic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Cologne (Germany)
ISBN : 9462988226

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The Imperial City of Cologne by Joseph P. Huffman Pdf

The Imperial City of Cologne: From Roman Colony to Medieval Metropolis (19 B.C.-1125 A.D.) is an urban history of Cologne from its imperial Roman origins as a northeastern frontier military outpost to a medieval metropolis on the German Empire's northwestern border. This first history of Cologne, available in English, challenges received notions of late Roman ethnic identities, a Dark Age collapse of urban life, devastating Viking and Magyar incursions, and the origins of medieval urban government.

Author : Garrett Ryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000424959

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Greek Cities and Roman Governors by Garrett Ryan Pdf

This volume uses the travels of Roman governors to explore how authority was defined in and by the public places of Greek cities. By demonstrating that the places where imperial officials and local notables met were integral to the strategies by which they communicated with one another, Greek Cities and Roman Governors sheds new light on the significance of civic space in the Roman provinces. It also presents a fresh perspective on the monumental cityscapes of Roman Asia Minor, epicenter of the greatest building boom in classical history. Though of special interest to scholars and students of Roman Asia Minor, Greek Cities and Roman Governors offers broad insights into Roman imperialism and the ancient city.