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Curating Empire: Museums and the British Imperial Experience
Sarah Longair (Ed.)
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Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and representing the British imperial experience. This collection demonstrates how individuals, their curatorial practices, and intellectual and political agendas influenced the development of a variety of museums across the globe. Taken together, these contributions suggest that museums are not just sites for accessing history but need to be considered as historical sites of significance in themselves. Individual essays examine the work of curators in museums in Britain and the colonies, the historical display and interpretation of empire in Britain, and the establishment of 'museum networks' in ... Read more
Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and representing the British imperial experience. This collection demonstrates how individuals, their curatorial practices, and intellectual and political agendas influenced the development of a variety of museums across the globe. Taken together, these contributions suggest that museums are not just sites for accessing history but need to be considered as historical sites of significance in themselves. Individual essays examine the work of curators in museums in Britain and the colonies, the historical display and interpretation of empire in Britain, and the establishment of 'museum networks' in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Studies in Imperialism
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784993467
SKU
V9781784993467
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About Sarah Longair (Ed.)
John McAleer is Curator of Eighteenth-Century Imperial and Maritime History at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich Sarah Longair is Education Manager at the British Museum and was awarded her PhD from Birkbeck, University of London in 2012 -- .
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