Nineteenth-century Glasgow was widely imagined and presented as the proud ‘Second City of the Empire’. This article investigates the implications of this identification with the empire by analysing Glasgow's great town hall, built 1883–89, as the main manifestation of the city's civic pride. It shows how the building's architectural style, sculpture and inauguration ceremonies created a specific image of ‘imperial’ Glasgow which emphasized loyalty to Union and empire. Instead of undermining each other, the layered political allegiances of civic pride, nationalism, unionism and imperialism were mutually reinforcing, shaping the town hall still in use today.

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格拉斯哥的新市政厅：帝国主义、民族主义和公民自豪感，1877-1889

19 世纪的格拉斯哥被广泛想象并被描述为引以为豪的“帝国第二城市”。本文通过分析建于 1883-89 年的格拉斯哥大市政厅，作为城市公民自豪感的主要体现，调查了这种对帝国的认同的含义。它展示了该建筑的建筑风格、雕塑和就职典礼如何创造出“帝国”格拉斯哥的特定形象，强调对联盟和帝国的忠诚。公民自豪感、民族主义、工会主义和帝国主义的分层政治效忠不是相互削弱，而是相辅相成，塑造了今天仍在使用的市政厅。