Curating empire (eBook, PDF)

Museums and the British imperial experience
Redaktion: Longair, Sarah; Mcaleer, John

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Produktbeschreibung

Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and representing the British imperial experience. This collection demonstrates how individuals, their curatorial practices, and intellectual and political agendas influenced the development of a variety of museums across the globe. Taken together, these contributions suggest that museums are not just sites for accessing history but need to be considered as historical sites of significance in themselves. Individual essays examine the work of curators in museums in Britain and the colonies, the historical display and interpretation of empire in Britain, and the establishment of 'museum networks' in the British imperial context.

Curating empire sheds new light on the relationship between museums, as repositories for objects and cultural institutions for conveying knowledge, and the politics of culture and the formation of identities throughout the British Empire.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526118288
• Artikelnr.: 60362670

Autorenporträt

John McAleer is Curator of Eighteenth-Century Imperial and Maritime History at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich Sarah Longair is Education Manager at the British Museum and was awarded her PhD from Birkbeck, University of London in 2012

Inhaltsangabe

General editor's introduction Introduction: Curating empire: Museums and the British imperial experience
Sarah Longair and John McAleer 1. The case of Thomas Baines, curator
explorer extraordinaire, and the display of Africa in nineteenth
century Norfolk
John McAleer 2. Visiting the Empire at the provincial museum, 1900
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Claire Wintle 3. Carving out a place in the Better Britain of the South Pacific: Maori in New Zealand museums and exhibitions
Conal McCarthy 4. Curiosities or science in the National Museum of Victoria: Procurement networks and the purpose of a museum
Gareth Knapman 5. Narrative as history, image as memory: Exhibiting the Great War in Australia, 1917
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Jennifer Wellington 6. 'The lady curator's style': Negotiating curatorial challenges in the Zanzibar Museum
Sarah Longair 7. A Museum for Sierra Leone? Amateur enthusiasms and colonial museum policy in British West Africa
Paul Basu 8. Edgar Thurston at the Madras Museum (1885
1909): The multiple careers of a colonial museum curator
Savithri Preetha Nair 9. Sir William Gregory and the origins and foundation of the Colombo Museum
Philip McEvansoneya 10. Tipu's Tiger and images of India in British museums, 1799
2009
Sadiah Qureshi Afterword: Objects, empire and museums
Sarah Longair and John McAleer Index