Architecture of the British Empire
Author: Jan Morris
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
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The British Empire through buildings
Author: John M. MacKenzie
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2020-03-09
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1526145952
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImperialism is strikingly represented in its buildings. This work illuminates the dispersal of colonial culture and religious forms, social classes, and racial divisions over two centuries, from the establishment of colonial rule to a post-colonial world. It will be a vital reading for all students of imperial history and global material culture.
Architecture and Urbanism in the British Empire
Author: G. A. Bremner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 0198713320
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive overview of the architectural and urban transformations that took place across the British Empire between the seventeenth and mid-twentieth centuries, exploring the built heritage of Britain's former colonial empire as a fundamental part of how we negotiate our postcolonial identities.
Sir Herbert Baker
Author: John Stewart
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2021-11-30
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1476644438
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first full biography from childhood of the eminent British Architect Sir Herbert Baker. Written with the full cooperation of his family and with access to his archive and private papers, it gives an account of his remarkable life as the leading architect to the British Empire. From London, through the commemoration of the empire's war dead in France, via South Africa and Australia to India, he celebrated the might of an empire that once ruled a quarter of the world. He was an intimate friend of many of most fascinating men of his age, including Cecil Rhodes, Lawrence of Arabia, John Buchan, Jan Smuts and, of course, his fellow architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. After a Victorian architectural apprenticeship in London and on to becoming the most prolific architect of his age in South Africa, he built the new imperial capital of New Delhi in India with Lutyens, before returning to London. These built or rebuilt such landmark buildings as the Bank of England, South Africa House, India House, Rhodes House, and the stands for Lords Cricket Ground, as well as numerous churches and private houses.
Architecture and Empire in Jamaica
Author: Louis P. Nelson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016-01-01
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0300211007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough Creole houses and merchant stores to sugar fields and boiling houses, Jamaica played a leading role in the formation of both the early modern Atlantic world and the British Empire. Architecture and Empire in Jamaica offers the first scholarly analysis of Jamaican architecture in the long 18th century, spanning roughly from the Port Royal earthquake of 1692 to Emancipation in 1838. In this richly illustrated study, which includes hundreds of the author's own photographs and drawings, Louis P. Nelson examines surviving buildings and archival records to write a social history of architecture. Nelson begins with an overview of the architecture of the West African slave trade then moves to chapters framed around types of buildings and landscapes, including the Jamaican plantation landscape and fortified houses to the architecture of free blacks. He concludes with a consideration of Jamaican architecture in Britain. By connecting the architecture of the Caribbean first to West Africa and then to Britain, Nelson traces the flow of capital and makes explicit the material, economic, and political networks around the Atlantic.
Empire Building
Author: Mark Crinson
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780415139403
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Imperial Gothic
Author: G. A. Bremner
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780300187038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the global reach & influence of the Gothic Revival throughout Britain's empire. Focusing on religious buildings, this book examines the reinvigoration of the colonial & missionary agenda of the Church of England & its relationship with the rise of Anglian ecclesiology.
Buildings of Empire
Author: Ashley Jackson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013-11
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0199589380
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exciting journey to thirteen buildings that capture the essence of the British 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.
Stones of Empire
Author: Jan Morris
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780192805966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe attitude of the British to India was compounded partly of arrogance, but partly also of homesickness, and it shows in their constructions. Georgian terraces were adapted to tropical conditions, Victorian railway stations were elaborately orientalised, and seaside villas were adjusted to suit Himalayan conditions. This book, now reissued with a new introduction by Simon Winchester, is the first to describe the whole range of British constructions in India. Stones of Empire charts an enterprise in architecture, engineering, and social adaptation unique in human history.
Modern Architecture and the End of Empire
Author: Mark Crinson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-26
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781138039926
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title was first published in 2003: Modernist architecture claimed to be the 'international style' but the relationship between modernism and the new dispositions of nations and nationalities which have succeeded the old European empires remains obscure. In this, the first book to examine the interactions between modern architecture, imperialism and post-imperialism, Mark Crinson looks at the architecture of the last years of the British Empire, and during its prolonged dissolution and aftermath. Taking a number of case studies from Britain, Ghana, Hong Kong, Iran, India and Malaysia, he investigates the ambitions of the people who commissioned the buildings, the training and role of architects, and the interaction of the architecture and its changing social and cultural contexts. This book raises questions about the nature of modernism and its roles that look far beyond empire and towards the post-imperial.
