Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-254) and index.
List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Artists and militants, 1850-66 -- 2. In/between the colonial theatre: visuality, visibility and modernity -- 3. The 'worlding' of Algeria: feminism, imperialism and visual culture -- 4. Harriet Hosmer's Zenobia: a question of authority -- 5. Tactics and allegories, 1866-1900 -- Appendix: selected publications on Algeria, 1857-68 -- Notes -- Suggestions for further reading -- Index