McAleer / MacKenzie Exhibiting the Empire

Cultures of display and the British Empire
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1834-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 130, 304 Seiten, Web PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Studies in Imperialism

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

McAleer, John

MacKenzie, John M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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, 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 Sèbe
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

Über Autor(innen)

McAleer John:
John McAleer is Curator of Eighteenth-Century Imperial and Maritime History at the National Maritime Museum, GreenwichMacKenzie John M.:
John MacKenzie is Emeritus Professor of Imperial History, Lancaster University and holds Honorary Professorships at Aberdeen, St Andrews and Stirling, as well as an Honorary Fellowship at Edinburgh.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