Imperialism 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.
Buildings provide tremendous insights into the character of imperialism, not least in the manner in which Western forms were spread across the globe. They reveal the projection of power and authority in colonised landscapes, as well the economic ambitions and social and cultural needs of colonial peoples in all types of colonies. They also represent a colonial order of social classes and racial divisions, together with the ways in which these were inflected through domestic living space, places of work and various aspects of cultural relations. They illuminate the desires of Europeans to indulge in cultural and religious proselytisation, encouraging indigenous peoples to adopt western norms. But the resistance of the supposedly subordinate people led to the invasion, adoption and adaptation of such buildings for a post-colonial world.
The book will be vital reading for all students and scholars interested in the widest aspects of material culture.
By:
John M. MacKenzie
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 19mm
Weight: 608g
ISBN: 9781526145963
ISBN 10: 1526145960
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 10 March 2020
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction 1. Construction and Destruction 2. Militarisation, Mobility and Residences of Power 3. Cities, Towns, Civic Buildings and Hill Stations 4. Institutions of the Bourgeois Public Sphere and New Technologies 5. The Buildings of Ritual: Religion and Freemasonry 6. Domestic Residences and City Improvement 7. Colonial Cities: Malta, Rangoon and New Capitals Conclusion Select Bibliography Index -- .
John M. MacKenzie is Emeritus Professor of Imperial History at the University of Lancaster.
