G A Bremner
Biographic Data
| ID | 5441604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G A Bremner |
| GIVEN NAMES | G A |
| FAMILY NAME | Bremner |
| SIGNATURE | BREMNER G A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5639-8431 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Gold Standard Exploits
In 1862 the Standard Bank of British South Africa was formed in London. A so-called imperial bank, its growth became synonymous with that of South Africa itself. It achieved a dominant position during the Transvaal gold boom of the 1880s, where its presence on the Rand saw it go from a mere canvas tent in 1886 to a hulking, six-storey neo-Baroque “palace” of stone in 1908, setting new standards in banking architecture. Huge profits were to be had…
John M. MacKenzie, The British Empire Through its Buildings
For some years now the rise of “new” imperial history has enriched substantially our understanding of the British Empire. The one area that has lagged in this endeavour somewhat is the history of the built environment. Although colonial architecture and urbanism have fared better, the buildings of the metropolis (i.e., Britain) have been comparatively neglected. More and more work is being done in this area, but there is still a long way to go. A…
Commentary
John M. MacKenzie, The British Empire Through its Buildings
For some years now the rise of “new” imperial history has added to and enriched substantially our understanding of the British empire. The one area that has lagged in this endeavour somewhat is the history of the built environment. Although colonial architecture and urbanism have fared better, the buildings of the metropolis (i.e., Britain) have been comparatively neglected. More and more work is being done in this area, but there is still a long…
St. Pancras Station
Colonial Themes in Stained Glass, Home and Abroad
This photoessay presents a number of carefully chosen images of stained glass, found both in Britain and its former colonial empire, in order to provide an impression of the range and type of window that engaged colonial/imperial subject matter during the Victorian and Edwardian periods. These images are accompanied by a short analytical overview, supported with critical commentaries on each image (or set of images). The images are arranged with …
A Tale of Two Churches
The two Anglican churches in Rome by the distinguished nineteenth-century English architect George Edmund Street — St Paul's Within-the-Walls (1872–6), Via Nazionale, and All Saints’ (1880–7), Via del Babuino — are notable examples of High Victorian design. Yet little scholarly attention has been afforded either church, especially All Saints’. This article considers both these buildings not so much as works of architecture but as markers of cultu…
Architecture and Urbanism in the British Empire
A comprehensive overview of the architectural and urban transformations that took place across the British Empire between the seventeenth and mid-twentieth centuries, exploring the built heritage of Britain's former colonial empire as a fundamental part of how we negotiate our postcolonial identities.
Making History
Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–92) was one of the founding fathers of the discipline of academic history in Britain, known to medievalists in particular on account of his multi-volume History of the Norman Conquest (1867–79). He was also known in his own time as an influential thinker on empire and federalism, as well as a fierce and acerbic critic of all things relating to history and politics. As his most famous quote ‘history is past politics, …
Narthex reclaimed
Buildings of Empire
Paul Mellon Centre Rome Fellowship
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History as Form
Traditionally viewed as one of the leading lights of Whig history in the High Victorian period, Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–1892) is best known for his History of the Norman Conquest (1865–1876). For all his reputation for scholarly pedantry, Freeman had wide-ranging interests, including architecture. His first book, A History of Architecture (1849), was both unique and controversial: unique in being the first history of world architecture in E…
The “Great Obelisk” and Other Schemes
Nation and Empire in the Government Architecture of Mid-Victorian London
In 1856 the British government held an international competition for the design of public offices to be located near Whitehall and the houses of parliament. Comprising a Foreign Office and War Office, the project was radically altered in 1858 when the War Office component was abandoned and replaced with a new India Office. The controversy that surrounded this competition and its aftermath has attracted the attention of scholars for decades, not l…
Diderot
Order and Chance. The Pattern of Diderot's Thought
Introduction Order and the Ancien Regime Part I. Perception and Action: 1. Perception 2. Action Part II. Systems of Order: 3. The concept of 'fullness' 4. A political system 5. A system of aesthetics Part III. Social and Individual Values: 6. Public order and private disorder in Diderot's works 7. Chance and the moral order Originals of French passages quoted in the text Bibliography Index
L'impossibilité D'une théorie de l'évolution dans la pensée française du XVIIIe siècle
The absence of a fully-fledged theory of evolution in the eighteenth century can be accounted for by the unquestioned assumption of a hierarchy of values whose effect was to allot an inferior status to all potentially evolutionary concepts. The dominant values in the hierarchy were absolute form and plenitude, whereas concepts such as the movement of matter, change, diversity, etc., were seen simply as the means by which nature produced purely co…
Contradictions in Diderot's Scientific Philosophy and Le Neveu De Rameau
The Lesson of Saint-Réal
THE LESSON OF SAINT-RÉAL Get access GEOFFREY BREMNER GEOFFREY BREMNER KHARTOUM Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XXIV, Issue 4, October 1970, Pages 356–367, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XXIV.4.356 Published: 01 October 1970
Millwood, Lady Milford and Maria Stuart
Nation and Empire in the Government Architecture of Mid-Victorian London
In 1856 the British government held an international competition for the design of public offices to be located near Whitehall and the houses of parliament. Comprising a Foreign Office and War Office, the project was radically altered in 1858 when the War Office component was abandoned and replaced with a new India Office. The controversy that surrounded this competition and its aftermath has attracted the attention of scholars for decades, not l…
Order and Chance. The Pattern of Diderot's Thought
Introduction Order and the Ancien Regime Part I. Perception and Action: 1. Perception 2. Action Part II. Systems of Order: 3. The concept of 'fullness' 4. A political system 5. A system of aesthetics Part III. Social and Individual Values: 6. Public order and private disorder in Diderot's works 7. Chance and the moral order Originals of French passages quoted in the text Bibliography Index
A Tale of Two Churches
The two Anglican churches in Rome by the distinguished nineteenth-century English architect George Edmund Street — St Paul's Within-the-Walls (1872–6), Via Nazionale, and All Saints’ (1880–7), Via del Babuino — are notable examples of High Victorian design. Yet little scholarly attention has been afforded either church, especially All Saints’. This article considers both these buildings not so much as works of architecture but as markers of cultu…
Narthex reclaimed
History as Form
Traditionally viewed as one of the leading lights of Whig history in the High Victorian period, Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–1892) is best known for his History of the Norman Conquest (1865–1876). For all his reputation for scholarly pedantry, Freeman had wide-ranging interests, including architecture. His first book, A History of Architecture (1849), was both unique and controversial: unique in being the first history of world architecture in E…
The “Great Obelisk” and Other Schemes
Millwood, Lady Milford and Maria Stuart
The Lesson of Saint-Réal
THE LESSON OF SAINT-RÉAL Get access GEOFFREY BREMNER GEOFFREY BREMNER KHARTOUM Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XXIV, Issue 4, October 1970, Pages 356–367, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XXIV.4.356 Published: 01 October 1970
Contradictions in Diderot's Scientific Philosophy and Le Neveu De Rameau
L'impossibilité D'une théorie de l'évolution dans la pensée française du XVIIIe siècle
The absence of a fully-fledged theory of evolution in the eighteenth century can be accounted for by the unquestioned assumption of a hierarchy of values whose effect was to allot an inferior status to all potentially evolutionary concepts. The dominant values in the hierarchy were absolute form and plenitude, whereas concepts such as the movement of matter, change, diversity, etc., were seen simply as the means by which nature produced purely co…
Order and Chance. The Pattern of Diderot's Thought
Introduction Order and the Ancien Regime Part I. Perception and Action: 1. Perception 2. Action Part II. Systems of Order: 3. The concept of 'fullness' 4. A political system 5. A system of aesthetics Part III. Social and Individual Values: 6. Public order and private disorder in Diderot's works 7. Chance and the moral order Originals of French passages quoted in the text Bibliography Index
Diderot
Nation and Empire in the Government Architecture of Mid-Victorian London
In 1856 the British government held an international competition for the design of public offices to be located near Whitehall and the houses of parliament. Comprising a Foreign Office and War Office, the project was radically altered in 1858 when the War Office component was abandoned and replaced with a new India Office. The controversy that surrounded this competition and its aftermath has attracted the attention of scholars for decades, not l…
The “Great Obelisk” and Other Schemes
History as Form
Traditionally viewed as one of the leading lights of Whig history in the High Victorian period, Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–1892) is best known for his History of the Norman Conquest (1865–1876). For all his reputation for scholarly pedantry, Freeman had wide-ranging interests, including architecture. His first book, A History of Architecture (1849), was both unique and controversial: unique in being the first history of world architecture in E…
Buildings of Empire
Paul Mellon Centre Rome Fellowship
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Making History
Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–92) was one of the founding fathers of the discipline of academic history in Britain, known to medievalists in particular on account of his multi-volume History of the Norman Conquest (1867–79). He was also known in his own time as an influential thinker on empire and federalism, as well as a fierce and acerbic critic of all things relating to history and politics. As his most famous quote ‘history is past politics, …
Narthex reclaimed
Architecture and Urbanism in the British Empire
A comprehensive overview of the architectural and urban transformations that took place across the British Empire between the seventeenth and mid-twentieth centuries, exploring the built heritage of Britain's former colonial empire as a fundamental part of how we negotiate our postcolonial identities.
St. Pancras Station
Colonial Themes in Stained Glass, Home and Abroad
This photoessay presents a number of carefully chosen images of stained glass, found both in Britain and its former colonial empire, in order to provide an impression of the range and type of window that engaged colonial/imperial subject matter during the Victorian and Edwardian periods. These images are accompanied by a short analytical overview, supported with critical commentaries on each image (or set of images). The images are arranged with …
A Tale of Two Churches
The two Anglican churches in Rome by the distinguished nineteenth-century English architect George Edmund Street — St Paul's Within-the-Walls (1872–6), Via Nazionale, and All Saints’ (1880–7), Via del Babuino — are notable examples of High Victorian design. Yet little scholarly attention has been afforded either church, especially All Saints’. This article considers both these buildings not so much as works of architecture but as markers of cultu…
John M. MacKenzie, The British Empire Through its Buildings
For some years now the rise of “new” imperial history has added to and enriched substantially our understanding of the British empire. The one area that has lagged in this endeavour somewhat is the history of the built environment. Although colonial architecture and urbanism have fared better, the buildings of the metropolis (i.e., Britain) have been comparatively neglected. More and more work is being done in this area, but there is still a long…
John M. MacKenzie, The British Empire Through its Buildings
For some years now the rise of “new” imperial history has enriched substantially our understanding of the British Empire. The one area that has lagged in this endeavour somewhat is the history of the built environment. Although colonial architecture and urbanism have fared better, the buildings of the metropolis (i.e., Britain) have been comparatively neglected. More and more work is being done in this area, but there is still a long way to go. A…
Commentary
Gold Standard Exploits
In 1862 the Standard Bank of British South Africa was formed in London. A so-called imperial bank, its growth became synonymous with that of South Africa itself. It achieved a dominant position during the Transvaal gold boom of the 1880s, where its presence on the Rand saw it go from a mere canvas tent in 1886 to a hulking, six-storey neo-Baroque “palace” of stone in 1908, setting new standards in banking architecture. Huge profits were to be had…
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