Exhibiting the Empire (eBook, PDF)

Cultures of display and the British Empire
Redaktion: Mcaleer, John; Mackenzie, John M.

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Produktbeschreibung

Exhibiting the empire considers how a whole range of cultural products - from paintings, prints, photographs, panoramas and 'popular' texts to ephemera, newspapers and the press, theatre and music, exhibitions, institutions and architecture - were used to record, celebrate and question the development of the British Empire. It represents a significant and original contribution to our understanding of the relationship between culture and empire. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, individual chapters bring fresh perspectives to the interpretation of media, material culture and display, and their interaction with history. Taken together, this collection suggests that the history of empire needs to be, in part at least, a history of display and of reception.

This book will be essential reading for scholars and students interested in British history, the history of empire, art history and the history of museums and collecting.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526118349
• Artikelnr.: 60363371

Autorenporträt

John McAleer is Lecturer in History at the University of Southampton John M. MacKenzie is Emeritus Professor of Imperial History at Lancaster University and holds Honorary Professorships at the Universities of Aberdeen, St Andrews and Stirling, as well as an Honorary Fellowship at Edinburgh University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Cultures of display and the British Empire
John M. MacKenzie and John McAleer 1. An elite imperial vision: eighteenth
century British country houses and four
continents imagery
Stephanie Barczewski 2. Exhibiting exploration: Captain Cook, voyages of exploration and the culture of display
John McAleer 3. Satirical peace prints and the cartographic unconscious
Douglas Fordham 4. Sanguinary engagements: exhibiting the naval battles of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Eleanor Hughes 5. Empire under glass: the British Empire and the Crystal Palace, 1851
1911
Jeffrey Auerbach 6. Ephemera and the British Empire
Ashley Jackson and David Tomkins 7. Exhibiting the empire in print: the press, the publishing world and the promotion of 'Greater Britain'
Berny Sèbe 8. Exhibiting the empire at the Delhi Durbar of 1911: imperial and cultural contexts
John M. MacKenzie 9. Elgar's Pageant of Empire, 1924: an imperial leitmotiv
Nalini Ghuman 10. Representing 'Our Island Sultanate' in London and Zanzibar: cross
currents in educating imperial publics
Sarah Longair Index