Inner empire

G. A. Bremner is Professor of Architectural History at the University of EdinburghDaniel Maudlin is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Plymouth

• Introduction: The Architectural Historiography of ‘Inner Empire’Part I: The Inner Empire1. Cultivation, Constructed Environments, and Cultural Conflict: Plantations and the Inner EmpireJ. P. Montaño2.Making North Britain: Infrastructure Projects and the Forcible Integration of the Scottish HighlandsDaniel Maudlin3. ‘Housing the Poorest Poor’: the Irish Other in Nineteenth-Century LiverpoolJohn Belchem4.Architecture of the State in Ireland: The Colonial Question, 1800–1922 Richard Butler5. Studied Indifference: Eighteenth-century Irish Architecture in Modern British Architectural HistoriesConor Lucey Part II: Empire Building in Britain 6.An Empire Under Construction: The View from Inside East India HouseEmily Mann7. Foreign Mud, Home Comforts: Taipans, Opium, and the Remitted Wealth of Jardine, Matheson & Co. in ScotlandG. A. Bremner8. Spaces of Empire in Victorian and Edwardian LondonRichard Dennis9. Australia House: Shaping Dominion Status in the Imperial Capital, 1907-63Eileen Chanin10. Empire Timber: Architecture, Trade, and Forestry, 1920-1950Neal Shasore11. How to Live in Britain: The Indian YMCA in Fitzroy SquareMark Crinson

‘Inner Empire is a very welcome addition to the field of (post-)colonial and imperial studies, area studies, and subaltern studies and critique. Within its transdisciplinary correspondence, it expands on aspects of architectural and urban planning histories which constitutes a meaningful contribution to the current state of study.’—Liora Bigon, Ariel University‘Critical and fresh, [this] collection offers a window into the future of the architectural history of the British Isles … It will quickly become required reading for all scholars interested in the intersection of architecture and empire.’—Louis Nelson, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians'This compilation would make an excellent primer for architecture students, including undergraduates, who are interested in exploring the range of ways in which colonial histories have influenced both ‘inner’ and ‘outer’ empire building at different scales without their being hectored or diverted into the verbose amateur sociology that afflicts some schools... This is a creditable publication from its two brilliant editors who are probably still only halfway towards their lifetime of scholarship.'—Timothy Brittain-Catlin, Journal of Historic Buildings & Places.