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Curating empire : museums and the British imperial experience / edited by Sarah Longair and John McAleer.

Curating empire : museums and the British imperial experience / edited by Sarah Longair and John McAleer.
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ISBN 9780719085079
0719085071
Meeting Museums, material culture and the British Empire (2009). London, England)
Title Curating empire : museums and the British imperial experience / edited by Sarah Longair and John McAleer.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Manchester, England Manchester University Press, 2012.
Description xiii, 240 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm.
Series Studies in imperialism
Note "This collection of essays is derived from a two-day conference, "Museums, material culture and the British Empire" which was held in London ... in October 2009." -- Acknowledgements.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Contents note: 1.The case of Thomas Baines, curator-explorer extraordinaire, and the display of Africa in nineteenth-century Norfolk / John McAleer -- 2.Visiting the empire at the provincial museum, 1900-50 / Claire Wintle -- 3.Carving out a place in the better Britain of the South Pacific: Maori in New Zealand museums and exhibitions / Conal McCarthy -- 4.Curiosities or science in the National Museum of Victoria: procurement networks and the purpose of a museum / Gareth Knapman -- 5.Narrative as history, image as memory: exhibiting the Great War in Australia, 1917-41 / Jennifer Wellington -- 6.The experience of a lady curator': negotiating curatorial challenges in the Zanzibar Museum / Sarah Longair -- 7.A museum for Sierra Leone? Amateur enthusiasms and colonial museum policy in British West Africa / Paul Basu -- 8.Edgar Thurston at the Madras Museum (1885-1909): the multiple careers of a colonial museum curator / Savithri Preetha Nair -- 9.Sir William Gregory and the origins and foundation of the Colombo Museum / Philip McEvansoneya -- 10.Tipu's Tiger and images of India, 1799-2009 / Sadiah Qureshi.
Subjects Imperialism -- History
Museums -- Great Britain -- History
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Museums -- History
Great Britain -- History
Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons Longair, Sarah (editor.)
McAleer, John (editor.)
Series Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
Call number 069.5 CUR
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