Curating empire : museums and the British imperial experience / edited by Sarah Longair and John McAleer
Author(s): McAleer, John | Longair, Sarah
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- Curating empire : museums and the British imperial experience
- Author(s)
- Longair, Sarah
McAleer, John - Publisher
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2012
- Collation
- xiii, 240 p. : ill.
24 cm. - ISBN
- 9780719085079
- Dewey Class
- 069.5
- Contents
- 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, 1900-50 / Claire Wintle -- 3. Carving out a place in the better Britain of the South Pacific : Māori 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, 1917-41 / Jennifer Wellington -- 6. The experience of a lady curator : 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, 1799-2009 / Sadiah Qureshi -- Afterword : objects, empire and museums / Sarah Longair and John McAleer.
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Imperialism
Museums -- Great Britain -- History. - BRN
- 2391
Availability
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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069.5 CUR
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