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Overlapping territories, intertwined histories
the centre of the world, the empire was now at the heart of the urban experience. Figure 1 ‘Visit the empire’, by Ernest M. Dinkel (1932) Images like this fix the ‘overlapping territories’ and ‘intertwined histories’ of modern imperialism in a particularly striking manner. 2 Indeed, their rhetoric and iconography need to be situated within a much wider history of cross-mappings between empire and the modern European city. This wider history may be approached