Illustrated throughout, Empire Building is a study of how and why Western architecture was exported to the East and how Islamic and Byzantine architectural ideas and styles impacted on the West.
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The objective to this study is, essentially, to arrive at a view of exoticism as a relation between (Western) Self and (exotic) Other that is fluctuatingly tenuous or strong depending on the narrating subject's position vis-a-vis a point of departure (and return) that I have alt…
The mid-nineteenth century saw the creation of mass-produced juvenile literature whose form and ethos were to remain dominant until the 1950s, shaping the perceptions, attitudes and values of successive generations. The need to combat the perceived moral threat of the 'penny dre…