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Item Number: 125200
Title: Curating Empire : Museums and the British Imperial Experience
Author: Longair, Sarah ; John McAleer (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780719085079
Description: Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2012. 24cm., hardcover, 240pp. illus. Contents: 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: M?ori 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 lady curator's style': 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 in British museums, 1799-2009 - Sadiah Qureshi . Afterword: Objects, empire and museums - Sarah Longair and John McAleer. (Studies in Imperialism)
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