Exhibiting the empire : cultures of display and the British Empire / edited by John McAleer and John M. Mackenzie.
Author(s): Mackenzie, John M. | McAleer, John
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- Exhibiting the empire : cultures of display and the British Empire
- Author(s)
- McAleer, John
Mackenzie, John M. - Publisher
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.
- Collation
- xii, 291 p. : ill.
24 cm. - Series Title
- Studies in imperialism
- ISBN
- 9780719091094
- Dewey Class
- 304.8
- Contents
- 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 Sebe -- 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.
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Exhibitions. - BRN
- 6290
Availability
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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Books
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304.8 EXH
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