Building The British Empire

Author : John M. MacKenzie
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526145952
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Empire through buildings written by John M. MacKenzie and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : James Truslow Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building the British Empire written by James Truslow Adams and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Truslow Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building the British Empire written by James Truslow Adams and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469606658
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Builders of Empire written by Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They built some of the first communal structures on the empire's frontiers. The empire's most powerful proconsuls sought entrance into their lodges. Their public rituals drew dense crowds from Montreal to Madras. The Ancient Free and Accepted Masons were quintessential builders of empire, argues Jessica Harland-Jacobs. In this first study of the relationship between Freemasonry and British imperialism, Harland-Jacobs takes readers on a journey across two centuries and five continents, demonstrating that from the moment it left Britain's shores, Freemasonry proved central to the building and cohesion of the British Empire. The organization formally emerged in 1717 as a fraternity identified with the ideals of Enlightenment cosmopolitanism, such as universal brotherhood, sociability, tolerance, and benevolence. As Freemasonry spread to Europe, the Americas, Asia, Australasia, and Africa, the group's claims of cosmopolitan brotherhood were put to the test. Harland-Jacobs examines the brotherhood's role in diverse colonial settings and the impact of the empire on the brotherhood; in the process, she addresses issues of globalization, supranational identities, imperial power, fraternalism, and masculinity. By tracking an important, identifiable institution across the wide chronological and geographical expanse of the British Empire, Builders of Empire makes a significant contribution to transnational history as well as the history of the Freemasons and imperial Britain.

Author : Jan Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture of the British Empire written by Jan Morris and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Maudlin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469626837
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building the British Atlantic World written by Daniel Maudlin and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-03-11 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions. In this groundbreaking study, thirteen leading scholars explore the idea of transatlanticism--or a shared "Atlantic world" experience--through the lens of architecture, built spaces, and landscapes in the British Atlantic from the seventeenth century through the mid-nineteenth century. Examining town planning, churches, forts, merchants' stores, state houses, and farm houses, this collection shows how the powerful visual language of architecture and design allowed the people of this era to maintain common cultural experiences across different landscapes while still forming their individuality. By studying the interplay between physical construction and social themes that include identity, gender, taste, domesticity, politics, and race, the authors interpret material culture in a way that particularly emphasizes the people who built, occupied, and used the spaces and reflects the complex cultural exchanges between Britain and the New World.

Author : Alfred Thomas Story
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Building of the British Empire: 1689-1895 written by Alfred Thomas Story and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : G. A. Bremner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198713320
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Urbanism in the British Empire written by G. A. Bremner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive overview of the architectural and urban transformations that took place across the British Empire between the seventeenth and mid-twentieth centuries, exploring the built heritage of Britain's former colonial empire as a fundamental part of how we negotiate our postcolonial identities.

Author : Matthew H. Edney
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226184862
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mapping an Empire written by Matthew H. Edney and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating history of the British surveys of India, Matthew H. Edney relates how imperial Britain used modern survey techniques to not only create and define the spatial image of its Empire, but also to legitimate its colonialist activities. "There is much to be praised in this book. It is an excellent history of how India came to be painted red in the nineteenth century. But more importantly, Mapping an Empire sets a new standard for books that examine a fundamental problem in the history of European imperialism."—D. Graham Burnett, Times Literary Supplement "Mapping an Empire is undoubtedly a major contribution to the rapidly growing literature on science and empire, and a work which deserves to stimulate a great deal of fresh thinking and informed research."—David Arnold, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History "This case study offers broadly applicable insights into the relationship between ideology, technology and politics. . . . Carefully read, this is a tale of irony about wishful thinking and the limits of knowledge."—Publishers Weekly

Author : Ashley Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199589380
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buildings of Empire written by Ashley Jackson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting journey to thirteen buildings that capture the essence of the British imperial experience, painting an intimate portrait of the biggest empire the world has ever seen: the people who made it and the people who resisted it, as well as the legacy of the imperial project throughout the world.