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This book explores the influence of imperialism in the landscapes of modern European cities including London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Marseilles, Glasgow and Seville. The first part considers some ways in which the design of urban landscapes articulated competing visions of the imperial city, including large-scale planning and architectural schemes, urban design and public monuments. The final shape of the Queen Victoria Memorial in London suggests an oddly tenuous relationship between the creation of imperial space and the representation of the empire itself. The notions of empire and romanità are expressed through the location, styling and form of the Vittoriano in Rome. The second part of the book considers the role of various forms of visual display, including spectacular pageants, imperial exhibitions and suburban gardens, in the cultural life of metropolitan imperialism. The material transformation of Paris with rhetorical devices reveals a deep-seated ambiguity about just how 'imperial' Paris wanted to appear. Sydenham Crystal Palace housed the Ethnological and Natural History Department, and its displays brought together animals, plants and human figures from various areas of the globe. The largest part of imperial Vienna's tourist traffic came from within the Austrian lands of the empire. The last part of the book is primarily concerned with the associations between imperial identities and the history of urban space in a variety of European cities. The book considers the changing cultural and political identities in the imperial city, looking particularly at nationalism, masculinity and anti-imperialism.
not only opened up to capitalism and trade; it was also redesigned to glorify the imperial regime. As the landscape of the city was being reshaped, inroads were being made into what was felt by many citizens to be the irrepressible identity of Paris, the capital of the Revolution and therefore of the people. ‘Imperial Paris’ became a highly contested notion as those with conflicting political ideals fought for symbolic ownership of urban space and representation. The development of the tourist trade produced
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in the preface to his Histoire des treize (1833). In this work, Balzac groups together into a loose trilogy three disparate texts – Ferragus , La Duchesse de Langeais (which would be filmed by Rivette as Ne touchez pas la hache in 2007) and La Fille aux yeux d’or – by means of a preface in which he imagines a secret society of thirteen individuals coming together in imperial Paris in order to facilitate their own
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