Building Greater Britain : architecture, imperialism, and the Edwardian baroque revival, c.1885-1920 / G.A. Bremner.
Description: xi, 356 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cmISBN:- 9781913107314
- 1913107310
- 720.941 23/eng/20230404
- NA968.5. E38B74 2022
Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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Book-Circulating | Fischer Hall Library Oversize | NA968.5. E38B74 2022 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Donated by Prof Fernandez-Armesto, Spring 2024 | B015207 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-341) and index.
Styling Greater Britain: language, gender, and the Edwardian Baroque Revival -- Imperial decline?: anxiety, 'efficiency', and rebuilding state power -- Crimson threads: constructing Britishness in the dominions -- Building for eternity: Hebert Baker, the 'Grand Manner', and imperial patriotism -- The rule of law: legal imperialism and fabricating British justice -- In memoriam: monuments, memorials, and the architectonics of memory -- Asset building: global finance and the sturctures on gentlemanly capitalism -- Nerves and nodal points: communcations and the formation of imperial networking.
The Edwardian Baroque was the closest British architecture ever came to achieving an "imperial" style. With the aim of articulating British global power and prestige, it adorned civic and commercial structures both in Britain and in the wider British world, especially in the "white settler" Dominions of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and South Africa. Evoking the contemporary and emotive idea of "Greater Britain," this new book by distinguished historian G. A. Bremner represents a major, groundbreaking study of this intriguing architectural movement in Britain and its empire. It explores the Edwardian Baroque's significance as a response to the growing tide of anxiety over Britain's place in the world, its widely perceived geopolitical decline, and its need to bolster confidence in the face of the Great Power rivalries of the period. Cross-disciplinary in nature, it combines architectural, political, and imperial history and theory, providing a more nuanced and intellectually wide-ranging understanding of the Edwardian Baroque movement from a material culture perspective, including its foundation in notions of race and gender.