{"product_id":"coral-empire-9781478003823","title":"Coral Empire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnn Elias traces the history of two explorers whose photographs and films of tropical reefs in the 1920s cast corals and the sea as an unexplored territory to be exploited in ways that tied the tropics and reefs to colonialism, racism, and the human domination of nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCoral Empire\u003c\/i\u003e’s postcolonial jeremiad also registers the joyful endurance of surrealist visions of the submarine as a deliriously consciousness-altering realm.\" -- James Delbourgo * TLS *\u003cbr\u003e\"[This] book shows that interdisciplinarity is possible. Elias combines the history of underwater cinematography and diving with attention to the surrealist art movement, natural history collecting, colonialism, and the history of tourism, and through this rich patchwork traces shifting popular interpretations of coral imagery in the early twentieth century.\" -- Antony Adler * Environmental History *\u003cbr\u003e\"Ann Elias’ fascinating book couldn’t come at a better time. . . . Elias focuses on long neglected images from cinema, dioramas from museums, and illustrations from the press. She cleverly articulates them through a set of unexpected global connections that powerfully mobilise all the transforming ideas of empire, race, technology and nature at the time.\" -- Martyn Jolly * Australian Historical Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is well written and the short chapters make it extremely readable. In addition, the book is beautifully printed, with black-and-white images embedded in chapters and their color counterparts inserted in the middle of the book. It is refreshing to see a book that relies on the reading of images paying such close attention to their reproduction in the text.\" -- Samantha Muka * H-Net Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Coral Uncanny\u003cbr\u003e 1. Coral Empire  15\u003cbr\u003e 2. \u003ci\u003eMad Love\u003c\/i\u003e  29\u003cbr\u003e Part II. John Ernest Williamson and the Bahamas\u003cbr\u003e 3. Williamson and the Photosphere  49\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Field Museum—Williamson Undersea Expedition  68\u003cbr\u003e 5. \u003ci\u003eUnder the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e  83\u003cbr\u003e 6. Williamson in Australia  97\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Frank Hurley and the Great Barrier Reef\u003cbr\u003e 7. Hurley and the Floor of the Sea  117\u003cbr\u003e 8. Hurley and the Australian Museum Expedition  131\u003cbr\u003e 9. \u003ci\u003ePearls and Savages\u003c\/i\u003e  147\u003cbr\u003e 10. Hurley and the Torres Strait Diver  165\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Hurley and Williamson\u003cbr\u003e 11. Explorers and Modern Media  185\u003cbr\u003e 12. Color and Tourism  199\u003cbr\u003e Part V. The Great Acceleration\u003cbr\u003e 13. The Anthropocene  217\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion  230\u003cbr\u003e Notes  235\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  261\u003cbr\u003e Index  277","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49372072214871,"sku":"9781478003823","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/coral-empire-9781478003823","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}