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Exhibiting the Empire
Cultures of display and the British EmpireStudies in Imperialism, Band 130
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37,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Manchester University Press |
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| Veröffentl.: | 01.03.2017 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781526118349 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 304 |
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<p>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.<br><br>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.</p>
Examines various ways in which the Empire was displayed in Britain between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, looking at music, satirical prints, exploration, battles and even nascent nationalism.
<p>Introduction: Cultures of display and the British Empire – John M. MacKenzie and John McAleer <br>1. An elite imperial vision: eighteenth-century British country houses and four-continents imagery – Stephanie Barczewski <br>2. Exhibiting exploration: Captain Cook, voyages of exploration and the culture of display – John McAleer <br>3. Satirical peace prints and the cartographic unconscious – Douglas Fordham<br>4. Sanguinary engagements: exhibiting the naval battles of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars – Eleanor Hughes <br>5. Empire under glass: the British Empire and the Crystal Palace, 1851–1911 – Jeffrey Auerbach <br>6. Ephemera and the British Empire – Ashley Jackson and David Tomkins <br>7. Exhibiting the empire in print: the press, the publishing world and the promotion of ‘Greater Britain’ – Berny Sèbe <br>8. Exhibiting the empire at the Delhi Durbar of 1911: imperial and cultural contexts – John M. MacKenzie <br>9. Elgar’s Pageant of Empire, 1924: an imperial leitmotiv – Nalini Ghuman <br>10. Representing ‘Our Island Sultanate’ in London and Zanzibar: cross-currents in educating imperial publics – Sarah Longair <br>Index</p>
<p>John McAleer is Lecturer in History at the University of Southampton<br><br>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</p>
<p>Exhibiting the Empire considers how a wide range of cultural products were used to record, celebrate and question the development of the British Empire. It provides a significant and original contribution to our understanding of the relationship between culture and the British Empire. Individual chapters bring fresh perspectives to the interpretation of media, material culture and display and their interaction with the associated history.<br><br>The empire was exhibited for a variety of reasons: to promote trade and commerce; to encourage emigration and settlement; to assert and cement imperial authority; to digest and display the data and specimens collected from voyages of exploration and missionary endeavours undertaken in the name of empire; and to celebrate and commemorate important landmarks, people or events in the imperial pantheon. Exhibiting the Empire considers a broad sweep of ‘imperial moments’ and media that includes paintings, prints, photographs, panoramas and ‘popular’ texts to ephemera, newspapers and the press, theatre and music, exhibitions, institutions and architecture. This collection is used to highlight the contingent and changing nature of imperial display as well as its continuing impact in Britain throughout (and beyond) the country’s imperial meridian. <br><br>Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, Exhibiting the Empire 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.</p>
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