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Empire building : orientalism and Victorian architecture

Empire building : orientalism and Victorian architecture Paperback - 1996

by Crinson, Mark

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London ; New York : Routledge, 1996. First Edition. Paperback. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 288 pages; Physical description. : xvi, 288 p. : ill. , maps ; 26 cm. Subject: Architecture, Islamic - Middle East - Influence. Bouwkunst. Orientalisme. Victoriaanse tijd. Victorian Period. Architecture - Great Britain - Islamic influences. Exoticism in architecture - Great Britain. Architecture, Modern - 19th century - Middle East. Architecture - Great Britain - Asian influences Architecture, Modern - Great Britain - Asian influences
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  • Title Empire building : orientalism and Victorian architecture
  • Author Crinson, Mark
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 306
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher London ; New York : Routledge, London
  • Date 1996
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 204076
  • ISBN 9780415139410 / 0415139414
  • Weight 1.7 lbs (0.77 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.71 x 6.89 x 0.81 in (24.66 x 17.50 x 2.06 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Architecture - Great Britain - Islamic, Architecture, Victorian - Great Britain
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95026418
  • Dewey Decimal Code 720.941

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The colonial architecture of the nineteenth century has much to tell us of the history of colonialism and cultural exchange. Yet, these buildings can be read in many ways. Do they stand as witnesses to the rapacity and self-delusion of empire? Are they monuments to a world of lost glory and forgotten convictions? Do they reveal battles won by indigenous cultures and styles? Or do they simply represent an architectural style made absurdly incongruous in relocation?
Empire Building is a study of how and why Western architecture was exported to the Middle East and how Islamic and Byzantine architectural ideas and styles impacted on the West.
The book explores how far racial theory and political and religious agendas guided British architects (and how such ideas were resisted when applied), and how Eastern ideas came to influence the West, through writers such as Ruskin and buildings such as the Crystal Palace.
Beautifully written and lavishly illustrated, Empire Building takes the reader on an extraordinary postcolonial journey, backwards and forwards, into the heart and to the edge of empire.

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