Colonial frames, nationalist histories : imperial legacies, architecture and modernity /

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Imprint:Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2012]
©2012
Description:xviii, 317 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Ashgate studies in architecture series
Ashgate studies in architecture series.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9968350
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Other authors / contributors:Rajagopalan, Mrinalini, editor of compilation.
Desai, Madhuri (Madhuri Shrikant), editor of compilation.
ISBN:9780754678809 (hardback : alk. paper)
0754678806 (hardback : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : architectural modernities of imperial pasts and nationalist presents / Mrinalini Rajagopalan and Madhuri Desai
  • Making Indian modern architects / William Glover
  • In search of the sacred and antique in colonial India / Madhuri Desai
  • From colonial memorial to national monument : the case of the Kashmiri Gate, Delhi / Mrinalini Rajagopalan
  • Comparative alterities : native encounters and the national museum / C. Greig Crysler
  • The black Atlantic and Georgian London / Richard W. Hayes
  • Almost but not quite : Architecture and the reconstruction of space and Territory of Hawaii / Kelema Lee Moses
  • Redefining the dual city : changing ideas of plural citizenship in colonial/postcolonial Singapore / Anoma Pieris
  • Beyond racialized representation : architectural Linguæ Francæ and urban histories in the Kampung houses and shophouses of Melaka and Singapore / Imran bin Tajudeen
  • Between typologies and representation : the Tong Lau and the discourse of the "Chinese house" in colonial Hong Kong / Cecilia Chu
  • Postcolonial Shanghai : an urban discourse of prosperity and futurity / Andrew Law.