| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Series |
Online access with DDA: Askews (Architecture)
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| Contents |
The Hero Building -- Prototype : Hume and Glenfinnan Monuments -- Romantic Poet -- Enlightenment Poet : Early Burns Monuments -- Athens of the North/Valhalla of the West : Calton Hill in Edinburgh -- Wizard of the North : The Scott Monument -- Baronial Revival and the National Wallace Monument -- National Poet -- Poet of Humanity : Late Burns Monuments -- Aberration, Autism and Vanity : Hamilton Mausoleum and the McCaig Tower -- The Fallen : The Scottish National War Memorial -- A Post Modern Proof : Glasgow Developments -- Afterlife |
| Summary |
Why was it that, across Scotland over the last two and a half centuries, architectural monuments were raised to national heroes? Were hero buildings commissioned as manifestations of certain social beliefs, or as a built environmental form of social advocacy? And if so, then how and why were social aims and intentions translated into architectural form, and how effective were they? A tradition of building architectural monuments to commemorate national heroes developed as a distinctive feature of the Scottish built environment. As concrete manifestations of powerful social and political curr |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Heroes -- Monuments -- Scotland
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Nationalism and architecture -- Scotland
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ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Public, Commercial & Industrial.
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Nationalism and architecture
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Scotland
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2014046620 |
| ISBN |
9781472452726 |
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1472452720 |
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9781317029144 |
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1317029143 |
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