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Projecting citizenship : photography and belonging in the British Empire / Gabrielle Moser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moser, Gabrielle, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain. Colonial Office. Visual Instruction Committee.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain. Colonial Office.
- Photography--Political aspects--Great Britain--Colonies--History--20th century.
- Photography.
- Photography--Political aspects.
- Photography in education.
- Colonies.
- History.
- Citizenship--Great Britain--Colonies--History--20th century.
- Citizenship.
- Photography in education--Colonies--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Examines the relationship between photography and citizenship, through a comprehensive account of the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee's lantern slide lecture scheme: a project initiated by the British government at the beginning of the twentieth century that aimed to photograph the entirety of the empire"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : citizenship in and out of sight
- The spectator : projecting imperial citizens in England and India
- The photographer : looking along the archival grain in Canada
- The subject : developing the image of the indentured laborer
- The archive : residues of noncitizens in the COVIC archive
- Conclusion : from imperial to global citizens, picturing citizenship in the present.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780271081274
- 0271081279
- OCLC:
- 1044781996
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