Curating empire : museums and the British imperial experience /: museums and the British imperial experience. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sarah Longair and John McAleer.
• Editors: Longair, Sarah; McAleer, John
• Contents: General editor’s introductionIntroduction: Curating empire: Museums and the British imperial experience – Sarah Longair and John McAleer1. The case of Thomas Baines, curator-explorer extraordinaire, and the display of Africa in nineteenth-century Norfolk –John McAleer2. Visiting the Empire at the provincial museum, 1900–50 – Claire Wintle3. Carving out a place in the Better Britain of the South Pacific: Maori in New Zealand museums and exhibitions – Conal McCarthy4. Curiosities or science in the National Museum of Victoria: Procurement networks and the purpose of a museum – Gareth Knapman5. Narrative as history, image as memory: Exhibiting the Great War in Australia, 1917–41–Jennifer Wellington6. ‘The lady curator’s style’: Negotiating curatorial challenges in the Zanzibar Museum –Sarah Longair7. A Museum for Sierra Leone? Amateur enthusiasms and colonial museum policy in British West Africa – Paul Basu8. Edgar Thurston at the Madras Museum (1885–1909): The multiple careers of a colonial museum curator – Savithri Preetha Nair9. Sir William Gregory and the origins and foundation of the Colombo Museum – Philip McEvansoneya10. Tipu’s Tiger and images of India in British museums, 1799–2009 – Sadiah Qureshi Afterword: Objects, empire and museums – Sarah Longair and John McAleerIndex
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (256 pages)
• Subjects: 069.5; Museums -- Great Britain -- History; Museums -- Africa -- History; Imperialism -- History -- 19th century; Imperialism -- History -- 20th century; Museums -- India -- History; Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526118288; 1526118289
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