{"product_id":"exhibiting-the-empire-9780719091094","title":"Exhibiting the Empire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines 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. -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Exhibiting the Empire is an excellent contribution to the continued debate about the empire’s role in Britain. There is a good deal packed into this relatively short volume, which certainly raises a number of new topics and approaches that warrant further attention from scholars of empire, British and otherwise.’\u003cbr\u003eStephen Hague, Rowan University, H-Net, Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘This collection is a brilliant example of how the historiography of empire should consider the multiple and complex imperial interactions within and throughout British domestic culture. Contributions from a range of scholars and a variety of disciplinary traditions show that a host of cultural products were used to record, celebrate and question the development of the British Empire within the metropole.’\u003cbr\u003eShahmima Akhtar, University of Birmingham, \u003ci\u003eJournal of contemporary History\u003c\/i\u003e, Vol. 54, No. 1\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Cultures of display and the British Empire – John M. MacKenzie and John McAleer \u003cbr\u003e1. An elite imperial vision: eighteenth-century British country houses and four-continents imagery – Stephanie Barczewski        \u003cbr\u003e2. Exhibiting exploration: Captain Cook, voyages of exploration and the culture of display – John McAleer         \u003cbr\u003e3. Satirical peace prints and the cartographic unconscious – Douglas Fordham\u003cbr\u003e4. Sanguinary engagements: exhibiting the naval battles of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars – Eleanor Hughes        \u003cbr\u003e5. Empire under glass: the British Empire and the Crystal Palace, 1851–1911 – Jeffrey Auerbach \u003cbr\u003e6. Ephemera and the British Empire – Ashley Jackson and David Tomkins   \u003cbr\u003e7. Exhibiting the empire in print: the press, the publishing world and the promotion of ‘Greater Britain’ – Berny Sèbe       \u003cbr\u003e8. Exhibiting the empire at the Delhi Durbar of 1911: imperial and cultural contexts – John M. MacKenzie        \u003cbr\u003e9. Elgar’s Pageant of Empire, 1924: an imperial leitmotiv – Nalini Ghuman \u003cbr\u003e10. Representing ‘Our Island Sultanate’ in London and Zanzibar: cross-currents in educating imperial publics – Sarah Longair \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037347250519,"sku":"9780719091094","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719091094.jpg?v=1750935387","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/exhibiting-the-empire-9780719091094","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}