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Empire Building - Orientalism and Victorian Architecture (Hardcover)
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Empire Building - Orientalism and Victorian Architecture (Hardcover)
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The colonial architecture of the nineteenth century has much to
tell us of the history of colonialism and cultural exchange. Yet,
these buildings can be read in many ways. Do they stand as
witnesses to the rapacity and self-delusion of empire? Are they
monuments to a world of lost glory and forgotten convictions? Do
they reveal battles won by indigenous cultures and styles? Or do
they simply represent an architectural style made absurdly
incongruous in relocation?
Empire Building is a study of how and why Western architecture was
exported to the Middle East and how Islamic and Byzantine
architectural ideas and styles impacted on the West.
The book explores how far racial theory and political and
religious agendas guided British architects (and how such ideas
were resisted when applied), and how Eastern ideas came to
influence the West, through writers such as Ruskin and buildings
such as the Crystal Palace.
Beautifully written and lavishly illustrated, Empire Building
takes the reader on an extraordinary postcolonial journey,
backwards and forwards, into the heart and to the edge of empire.
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