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Curating Empire: Museums and the British Imperial Experience

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Curating Empire: Museums and the British Imperial Experience
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Sarah Longair
Edited by John McAleer
SeriesStudies in Imperialism
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreLiterary essays
Colonialism and imperialism
ISBN/Barcode 9781784993467
ClassificationsDewey:069.5
Audience
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Illustrations Illustrations, black & white

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 18 May 2016
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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 the British imperial context. Curating empire sheds new light on the relationship between museums, as repositories for objects and cultural institutions for conveying knowledge, and the politics of culture and the formation of identities throughout the British Empire. -- .

Author Biography

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 -- .