Contains the keyword Cities and towns Europe.

edited by Felix Driver and David Gilbert.ill., map, plan ; 25 cm.Studies in imperialismThis "book has its origins in a research project at Royal Holloway, University of London ... [that] was concluded with a major international conference on the theme of imperial cities in May 1997. Earlier versions of most of the chapters were presented at the conference"--Acknowledgements.Imperial cities : overlapping territories, intertwined histories / Felix Driver and David Gilbert -- 'A grand work of noble conception' : the Victoria Memorial and imperial London / Tori Smith -- Empire in modern Rome : shaping and remembering an imperial city, 1870-1911 / David Atkinson, Denis Cosgrove and Anna Notaro -- Capitale du plaisir : the remaking of imperial Paris / Claire Hancock -- The Potemkin city : tourist images of late imperial vienna / Jill Steward -- Imperial visions : rebuilding the Bank of England, 1919-39 / Iain Black -- Staging the imperical city : the Pageant of London, 1911 / Deborah S. Ryan -- 'Capital of the colonies' : real and imagined boundaries between metropole and empire in 1920s Marseilles / Ya*l Simpson Fletcher -- Commemorating empire in twentieth-century Seville / Anthony Gristwood -- Portable iron structures and uncertain colonial spaces and the Sydenham Crystal Palace / Andrew Hassam --'The scenery of the torrid zone' : imagined travels and the culture of exotics in nineteenth-century British gardens /Rebecca Preston -- 'The second city of the Empire' : Glasgow - imperial municipality / John M. MacKenzie -- Sartorial spectacle : clothing and masculine identities in the imperial city, 1860-1914 / Christopher Breward -- Anti-imperial London : the Pan-African Conference of 1900 / Jonathan Schneer.