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02912aam a2200361 i 4500 001 FC111F50ED7211E4B3B91FE1DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150428015118 008 140804s2014 nyuabf b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014030024 020 $a 0805093087 (hardback) 020 $a 9780805093087 (hardback) 040 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a DA16 $b .H86 2014b 082 00 $a 941 $2 23 100 1 $a Hunt, Tristram, $d 1974- $e author. 240 10 $a Ten cities that made an empire. 245 10 $a Cities of empire : $b the British colonies and the creation of the urban world / $c Tristram Hunt. 260 $a New York, New York : $b Metropolitan Books, $c 2014. 300 $a xix, 515 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm. 500 $a "Originally published in England in 2014 under the title Ten Cities that Made an Empire by Allen Lane, London." 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-443) and index. 505 0 $a Boston -- Bridgetown -- Dublin -- Cape Town -- Calcutta -- Hong Kong -- Bombay -- Melbourne -- New Delhi -- Liverpool. 520 $a "An original history of the most enduring colonial creation, the city, explored through ten portraits of powerful urban centers the British Empire left in its wake. At its peak, the British Empire was an urban civilization of epic proportions, leaving behind a network of cities which now stand as the economic and cultural powerhouses of the twenty-first century. In a series of ten vibrant urban biographies that stretch from the shores of Puritan Boston to Dublin, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Liverpool, and beyond, acclaimed historian Tristram Hunt demonstrates that urbanism is in fact the most lasting of Britain's imperial legacies. Combining historical scholarship, cultural criticism, and personal reportage, Hunt offers a new history of empire, excavated from architecture and infrastructure, from housing and hospitals, sewers and statues, prisons and palaces. Avoiding the binary verdict of empire as 'good' or 'bad,' he traces the collaboration of cultures and traditions that produced these influential urban centers, the work of an army of administrators, officers, entrepreneurs, slaves, and renegades. In these ten cities, Hunt shows, we also see the changing faces of British colonial settlement: a haven for religious dissenters, a lucrative slave-trading post, a center of global hegemony. Lively, authoritative, and eye-opening, Cities of Empire makes a crucial new contribution to the history of colonialism"-- $c Provided by publisher. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x History. $x History. 650 0 $a Cities and towns $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Metropolitan areas. 650 0 $a Imperialism $x History. 941 $a 1 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006082826.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FC111F50ED7211E4B3B91FE1DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search