Binding: Hardcover
Description: Buildings of Empire takes the reader on an exciting journey through thirteen territories of the British Empire. From Dublin Castle to the glass and steel of Sir Norman Foster's Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank skyscraper these buildings capture the essence of the imperial experience painting an intimate portrait of the biggest empire the world has ever seen: the people who made it and the people who resisted it as well as the legacy of the imperial project throughout the world. Ashley Jackson visits classic examples of the buildings that the British governed from the forts they (often brutally) imposed their rule from the railway stations they travelled from the banks they traded from the educational establishments they spread their values from as well as the grand colonial hotels they stayed in the sporting clubs and botanical gardens where they took their leisure and the monumental exhibition spaces in which they celebrated the achievements of settlement and imperial endeavour. The history of these buildings does not end with the empire that built them. Their story in the aftermath of empire highlights the continuing legacy of many of the structures and institutions the British left behind as well as the sometimes unexpected role that these former symbols of alien rule have played in the establishment of new national identities in the years since independence.
Title: Buildings Of Empire
Author(s): Jackson Ashley (Professor Of Imperial And Military History King's College London)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199589388
Pages: 336 Pages, 45 Black And White Halftones
Publication Date: 2/1/2014
Category: Colonialism & Imperialism