The Architecture of Empire in Modern Europe, Space; Place; and the Construction of an Imperial Environment; 1860-1960

Author

Groten; Miel

Year

2022

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Language

English

Pages

Link

Last Update

29-Nov-2025

Keywords

Architecture & Architectural History ; History ; European Studies

Description

Empires are large. It is one of their signature qualities. As assemblages of different peoples and polities, empires link distant territories to each other by their very definition: they are ‘large political units, expansionist or with a memory of power extended over space’; consequently, when studying empires, ‘[s]pace matters, size matters, and so does the character of space and size’.¹ Yet empires are also small. Or rather, their effects are also felt in local and small-scale places, right down to the level of towns, streets, and even individual buildings. Such buildings are the subject of this study: pieces of architecture...