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Exhibiting the Empire: Cultures of Display and the British Empire
Contributor(s): McAleer, John (Editor), MacKenzie, John M. (Editor)
ISBN: 1526118351     ISBN-13: 9781526118356
Publisher: Manchester University Press
OUR PRICE:   $36.05  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe - Great Britain - General
- Art | Popular Culture
- History | Social History
Series: Studies in Imperialism
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.05 lbs) 304 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Exhibiting the empire considers how a whole range of cultural products DS from paintings, prints, photographs, panoramas and 'popular' texts to ephemera, newspapers and the press, theatre and music, exhibitions, institutions and architecture DS were used to record, celebrate and question the
development of the British Empire.

The empire was exhibited for a variety of reasons: to promote trade and commerce; to encourage emigration and settlement; to assert, project and cement imperial authority; to digest and display the data and specimens derived from various voyages of exploration and missionary endeavours undertaken in
the name of empire; to celebrate and commemorate important landmarks, people or events in the imperial pantheon. By considering a broad sweep of different media and 'imperial moments', this collection highlights the contingent and changing nature of imperial display, as well as its continuing impact
in Britain throughout (and beyond) the country's imperial meridian. Exhibiting the empire represents a significant and original contribution to our understanding of the relationship between culture and the British 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 the history of the British Empire.

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.