A review by jvan
Cities of Empire: The British Colonies and the Creation of the Urban World by Tristram Hunt

3.0

Informative about some of the ten featured cities but diffuse and nearly formless when speaking about others, it feels as if some of the chosen were put there just to round out the total. The book's a bit obsessed with architectural details, which I understand because it's an import aspect of Imperialist policy, but which I find frankly boring.