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Reinventing Africa : museums, material culture, and popular imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England / Annie E. Coombes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coombes, Annie E., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Africans--Public opinion--History.
- Africans.
- British--Attitudes--History.
- British.
- Material culture--Africa--History.
- Material culture.
- Museums--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Museums.
- National characteristics, British.
- Public opinion--Great Britain--History.
- Public opinion.
- International relations.
- Public opinion, British.
- Africa--History--1884-1918.
- Africa.
- Africa--Public opinion--History.
- Africa--Relations--Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Relations--Africa.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 280 pages) : 112 illustrations, facsims., maps, plans, port.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 1994.
- Summary:
- "Between 1890 and 1918, British colonial expansion in Africa led to the removal of many African artifacts that were subsequently brought to Britain and displayed. Annie Coombes argues that this activity had profound repercussions for the construction of a national identity within Britain itself--the effects of which are still with us today.... Pioneering in its research, this book offers valuable insights for art and design historians, historians of imperialism and anthropology, anthropologists, and museologists"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- 1. Material Culture at the Crossroads of Knowledge: The Case of the Benin 'Bronzes'
- 2. Voices in the Wilderness: Critics of Empire
- 3. Aesthetic Pleasure and Institutional Power
- 4. The Spectacle of Empire 1: Expansionism and Philanthropy at the Stanley and African Exhibition
- 5. The Spectacle of Empire 2: Exhibitionary Narratives
- 6. Temples of Empire: The Museum and its Publics
- 7. Containing the Continent: Ethnographies on Display
- 8. 'For God and For England': Missionary Contributions to an Image of Africa
- 9. National Unity and Racial and Ethnic Identities: The Franco-British Exhibition of 1908
- Epilogue: Inventing the 'Post-Colonial'.
- Notes:
- Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on June 21, 2022).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-275) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300268614
- 0300268610
- OCLC:
- 1151095113
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