Exhibiting the empir : cultures of display and the British Empire
- Submitting institution
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University of Southampton
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 20544120
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- ISBN
- 9780719091094
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Exhibiting the empire considers how a range of cultural products – from paintings, prints, photographs, panoramas, and ‘popular’ texts to ephemera, newspapers and the press, theatre and music, exhibitions, institutions, and architecture – were used to record, celebrate and question the development of the British Empire. By considering a broad sweep of different media and ‘imperial moments’, from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, this collection of ten chapters (c.115,000 words; 304 pp.) highlights the contingent and changing nature of imperial display, as well as its continuing impact in Britain throughout (and beyond) the country’s imperial meridian. Comprising chapters by leading scholars in their respective fields, Exhibiting the empire represents a significant and original contribution to the literature on the relationship between culture and the British Empire. It identifies important new avenues of enquiry for future scholarship and underscores the importance of considering the cultural implications of ‘empire’ for wider British history.
The author’s chapter (10,000 words) was based on extensive research, over several years, into both archival records and collections of material culture. The methodology drew on the author’s curatorial experience in order to bring object analysis and interpretation into conversation with archival and printed primary sources. The author and his co-editor worked completely in tandem to develop the original concept of the volume, to liaise with the publisher and volume contributors, and to manage the process from initial intellectual conception, through draft and final submissions, to eventual publication. The editors were jointly responsible (50 per cent each) for editing and commenting on the entire manuscript. The author also wrote the introductory chapter (7000 words) with the co-editor.
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- Non-English
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