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Representing Africa: Landscape, Exploration and Empire in Southern Africa, 1780-1870

Hardback

Main Details

Title Representing Africa: Landscape, Exploration and Empire in Southern Africa, 1780-1870
Authors and Contributors      By (author) John McAleer
SeriesStudies in Imperialism
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:264
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreAfrican history
Colonialism and imperialism
ISBN/Barcode 9780719081040
ClassificationsDewey:623.89096809034
Audience
General
Illustrations Illustrations, black & white|Illustrations, colour

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 7 May 2010
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Southern Africa played a varied but vital role in Britain's maritime and imperial stories: it was one of the most intricate pieces in the British imperial strategic jigsaw, and representations of southern African landscape and maritime spaces reflect its multifaceted position. Representing Africa examines the ways in which British travellers, explorers and artists viewed southern Africa in a period of evolving and expanding British interest in the region. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, contemporary travelogues and visual images, many of which have not previously been published in this context, this book posits landscape as a useful prism through which to view changing British attitudes towards Africa. Richly illustrated, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students interested in British, African, imperial and exploration history, art history, and landscape and environment studies. -- .

Author Biography

John McAleer is Curator of Eighteenth-Century Imperial and Maritime History at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich -- .