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Architecture and Urbanism in the British Empire (Paperback)
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Architecture and Urbanism in the British Empire (Paperback)
Series: Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series
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Throughout today's postcolonial world, buildings, monuments, parks,
streets, avenues, entire cities even, remain as witness to
Britain's once impressive if troubled imperial past. These
structures are a conspicuous and near inescapable reminder of that
past, and therefore, the built heritage of Britain's former
colonial empire is a fundamental part of how we negotiate our
postcolonial identities, often lying at the heart of social tension
and debate over how that identity is best represented. This volume
provides an overview of the architectural and urban transformations
that took place across the British Empire between the seventeenth
and mid-twentieth centuries. Although much research has been
carried out on architecture and urban planning in Britain's empire
in recent decades, no single, comprehensive reference source
exists. The essays compiled here remedy this deficiency. With its
extensive chronological and regional coverage by leading scholars
in the field, this volume will quickly become a seminal text for
those who study, teach, and research the relationship between
empire and the built environment in the British context. It
provides an up-to-date account of past and current
historiographical approaches toward the study of British imperial
and colonial architecture and urbanism, and will prove equally
useful to those who study architecture and urbanism in other
European imperial and transnational contexts. The volume is divided
in two main sections. The first section deals with overarching
thematic issues, including building typologies, major genres and
periods of activity, networks of expertise and the transmission of
ideas, the intersection between planning and politics, as well as
the architectural impact of empire on Britain itself. The second
section builds on the first by discussing these themes in relation
to specific geographical regions, teasing out the variations and
continuities observable in context, both practical and theoretical.
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