Exhibiting the Empire (Web PDF) von John McAleer

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 Fordham
4. 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, 18511911 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 Sèbe
8. Exhibiting the empire at the Delhi Durbar of 1911: imperial and cultural contexts John M. MacKenzie
9. Elgars 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

Exhibiting the empire considers how a whole range of cultural products from paintings, prints, photographs, panoramas and popular texts to ephemera, newspapers and the press, theatre and music, exhibitions, institutions and architecture were used to record, celebrate and question the development of the British Empire. It represents a significant and original contribution to our understanding of the relationship between culture and empire. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, individual chapters bring fresh perspectives to the interpretation of media, material culture and display, and their interaction with history. Taken together, this collection suggests that the history of empire needs to be, in part at least, a history of display and of reception.

This book will be essential reading for scholars and students interested in British history, the history of empire, art history and the history of museums and collecting.

John McAleer is Lecturer in History at the University of Southampton

John M. MacKenzie is Emeritus Professor of Imperial History at Lancaster University and holds Honorary Professorships at the Universities of Aberdeen, St Andrews and Stirling, as well as an Honorary Fellowship at Edinburgh University