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Exhibiting the empire : cultures of display and the British Empire
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- Creator
- edited by John McAleer and John M. MacKenzie
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Manchester, U.K. : Manchester University Press, 2017
- ©2015
- Physical Details
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- xii, 291 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781526118356, 1526118351
- OCLC
- on1008171511
- "First published by Manchester University Press in hardback 2015"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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 Fordham4. 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 -- Index