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The Architecture of Empire in Modern Europe : Space, Place, and the Construction of an Imperial Environment, 1860-1960 /

Empires stretched around the world, but also made their presence felt in architecture and urban landscapes. The Architecture of Empire in Modern Europe traces the entanglement of the European built environment with overseas imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As part of imperial n...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Groten, Miel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2022
Series:Landscape and heritage studies.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the places of empire
  • Gates to the 'heathen world'
  • Imperial cities, imperial citizens
  • The cultural effects of economic entanglements
  • Business palaces to rule the waves
  • Propaganda and science in imperial museums.