This innovative study reappraises the Edwardian Baroque movement in
British architecture, placing it in its wider cultural, political, and
imperial contexts
The Edwardian Baroque was the closest British architecture ever came to
achieving an "imperial" style. With the aim of articulating British
global power and prestige, it adorned civic and commercial structures
both in Britain and in the wider British world, especially in the "white
settler" Dominions of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and South Africa.
Evoking the contemporary and emotive idea of "Greater Britain," this new
book by distinguished historian G. A. Bremner represents a major,
groundbreaking study of this intriguing architectural movement in
Britain and its empire. It explores the Edwardian Baroque's significance
as a response to the growing tide of anxiety over Britain's place in the
world, its widely perceived geopolitical decline, and its need to
bolster confidence in the face of the Great Power rivalries of the
period. Cross-disciplinary in nature, it combines architectural,
political, and imperial history and theory, providing a more nuanced and
intellectually wide-ranging understanding of the Edwardian Baroque
movement from a material culture perspective, including its foundation
in notions of race and gender.
Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
