Exhibiting the empire : cultures of display and the British Empire / edited by John McAleer and John M. MacKenzie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McAleer, John, editor.

MacKenzie, John M. (John MacDonald), 1943- editor.

Series:

Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)

Studies in imperialism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public opinion--Great Britain--Colonies--History.

Public opinion.

Mass media--Great Britain--History.

Mass media.

Great Britain--Colonies--Public opinion.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations (black & white); digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title examines various ways in which the British Empire was displayed in Britain between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, looking at music, satirical prints, exploration, battles and even nascent nationalism.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781526118356

1526118351

9781526118363

152611836X

OCLC:

1467874097