Inner empire
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- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- Publication date:
- 06 January 2026
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- 9781526142672
- 9781526142665
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- Subjects:
- Social and Population History, Art, History, Architecture
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Book description
This book considers the impact of colonial and imperial cultures on the landscapes and urban environments of the British Isles from the sixteenth century through to the mid-twentieth century. It asserts that Britain’s 400-year entanglement with global empire left its mark upon the British Isles as much as it did the wider world, and that buildings were among the most powerful and conspicuous manifestations of the myriad relationships that Britain maintained with the theories and practice of colonialism in its modern history. The volume’s content is divided in two main sections: that concerning ‘internal’ colonisation and its infrastructures of control, order, and suppression; and that concerning wider relationships between architecture, the imperial economy, representations of empire, and postcolonial identity. With specifically commissioned new scholarship, the chapters in this volume present for the first time a coherent analysis of the British Isles as an imperial setting understood through its buildings, spaces, and infrastructure.
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