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Humanities & Social Sciences

October 2015

Exhibiting the Empire

Cultures of display and the British Empire

by John McAleer, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, John Mackenzie

Exhibiting the empire considers how a whole 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. It represents a significant and original contribution to our understanding of the relationship between culture and empire. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, individual chapters bring fresh perspectives to the interpretation of media, material culture and display, and their interaction with history. Taken together, this collection suggests that the history of empire needs to be, in part at least, a history of display and of reception. This book will be essential reading for scholars and students interested in British history, the history of empire, art history and the history of museums and collecting. ;

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Humanities & Social Sciences

June 2017

Exhibiting the Empire

Cultures of display and the British Empire

by John McAleer, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, John M. MacKenzie

Exhibiting the empire considers how a whole 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. It represents a significant and original contribution to our understanding of the relationship between culture and empire. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, individual chapters bring fresh perspectives to the interpretation of media, material culture and display, and their interaction with history. Taken together, this collection suggests that the history of empire needs to be, in part at least, a history of display and of reception. This book will be essential reading for scholars and students interested in British history, the history of empire, art history and the history of museums and collecting.

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The Arts

November 2010

After the Event

New perspectives on art history

by Amelia Jones, Charles Merewether, John Potts, Marsha Meskimmon

The event occurs in and over time; the aftermath concerns the traces, which are frozen into images, objects, re-presentations. Traditionally, art history is written in the aftermath as representational. A different perspective on the visual arts is opened up when scholars insist on exploring the status of the event itself, allowing temporality to remain in place. By focusing on the event, recognition of the complex character of the traces becomes all the more evident, challenging the singularity of representation itself. This book opens up debates on art history and theory to a broad range of perspectives, offering fresh approaches to art history and media culture alongside diverse investigations into cross-cultural and non-Western art practices. The essays draw together a wide and regionally diverse range of scholars from numerous areas, including film and documentary studies, philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, media theory and performance studies, as well as art history and theory. ;

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Humanities & Social Sciences

June 2014

Engendering whiteness

White women and colonialism in Barbados and North Carolina, 1627–1865

by Cecily Jones, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

Engendering whiteness represents a comparative analysis of the complex interweaving of race, gender, social class and sexuality in defining the contours of white women's lives in Barbados and North Carolina during the era of slavery. Despite their gendered subordination, their social location within the dominant white group afforded all white women a range of privileges. Hence, their whiteness, as much as their gender, shaped these women's social identities and material realities. Engendering whiteness draws on a wide variety of sources including property deeds, wills and court transcripts, and interrogates the ways in which white women could be simultaneously socially positioned within plantation societies as both agents and as victims. It also reveals the strategies deployed by elite and poor white women in these societies to resist their gendered subordination, to challenge the ideological and social constraints that sought to restrict their lives to the private domestic sphere, to protect the limited rights afforded to them, to secure independent livelihoods and to create meaningful existences. ;

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Humanities & Social Sciences

May 2010

Representing Africa

Landscape, exploration and empire in Southern Africa, 1780–1870

by John McAleer, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

Southern Africa played a varied but vital role in Britain's maritime and imperial stories: it was one of the most intricate pieces in the British imperial strategic jigsaw, and representations of southern African landscape and maritime spaces reflect its multifaceted position. Representing Africa examines the ways in which British travellers, explorers and artists viewed southern Africa in a period of evolving and expanding British interest in the region. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, contemporary travelogues and visual images, many of which have not previously been published in this context, this book posits landscape as a useful prism through which to view changing British attitudes towards Africa. Richly illustrated, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students interested in British, African, imperial and exploration history, art history, and landscape and environment studies. ;

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Literature & Literary Studies

May 1999

Derek Walcott

by John Thieme, John Thieme

This book provides a unique account of Walcott's development as a writer in addition to being the fullest study of his poetry and plays to date. Discusses all his major works and includes information on his out-of-print and unpublished plays along with . ;

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Humanities & Social Sciences

July 2018

The other empire

Metropolis, India and progress in the colonial imagination

by John Marriott, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie

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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2017

Representing Africa

Landscape, exploration and empire in Southern Africa, 1780–1870

by John McAleer, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie

Southern Africa played a varied but vital role in Britain's maritime and imperial stories: it was one of the most intricate pieces in the British imperial strategic jigsaw, and representations of southern African landscape and maritime spaces reflect its multifaceted position. Representing Africa examines the ways in which British travellers, explorers and artists viewed southern Africa in a period of evolving and expanding British interest in the region. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, contemporary travelogues and visual images, many of which have not previously been published in this context, this book posits landscape as a useful prism through which to view changing British attitudes towards Africa. Richly illustrated, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students interested in British, African, imperial and exploration history, art history, and landscape and environment studies.

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December 2007

Endoscopic Sinus Surgery

by Peter-John Wormald, Peter-John

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Literature & Literary Studies

November 2007

R. K. Narayan

by John Thieme, John Thieme

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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2017

Exhibiting the Empire

Cultures of display and the British Empire

by John McAleer, John M. MacKenzie

Exhibiting the empire considers how a whole 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. It represents a significant and original contribution to our understanding of the relationship between culture and empire. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, individual chapters bring fresh perspectives to the interpretation of media, material culture and display, and their interaction with history. Taken together, this collection suggests that the history of empire needs to be, in part at least, a history of display and of reception. This book will be essential reading for scholars and students interested in British history, the history of empire, art history and the history of museums and collecting.

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Literature & Literary Studies

March 2013

Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France

by Jeff Wallace, John Whale, John Whale

First published in 1790 Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France initiated a debate not only about the nature of the unprecedented historical events taking place across the channel, but about the very identity of the British state and its people. It has subsequently been appropriated by a variety of conservative and liberal thinkers and has played a major role in our understanding of the relationship between rhetoric, aesthetics and politics. In this volume, leading Burke scholars offer new and challenging essays which allow us to reconsider the historical context in which Reflections on the Revolution in France was written. The essays consider its reception, its engagements in the discourses of nationalism and toleration, its legacy to English and Irish writers of the Romantic period and its impact within our contemporary cultural and critical theory. The volume demonstrates a range of interdisciplinary critical methods and cultural perspectives from which to read Burke's most famous work. This volume will be the ideal companion to Burke's Reflections for all students of literature, history, politics and Irish studies. ;

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Literature & Literary Studies

October 2024

Literature and sustainability

by Adeline Johns-Putra, John Parham, Louise Squire

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Literature & Literary Studies

November 2007

R. K. Narayan

by John Thieme, John Thieme, Rebecca Mortimer

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Humanities & Social Sciences

June 2016

Curating empire

Museums and the British imperial experience

by Sarah Longair, Andrew Thompson, John McAleer, John Mackenzie

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. ;

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Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure

September 2024

The Simons of Manchester

How one family shaped a city and a nation

by Martin Dodge, John Ayshford, Diana Leitch, Stuart Jones, Janet Wolff

The Simons of Manchester revives the history of one of Manchester's most influential families, the Simons. The book investigates the lives and public work of Henry and Emily Simon, and Ernest and Shena Simon. Through philanthropy and work in social reform, the two generations of the Simons greatly enriched Manchester's cultural and civic institutions, worked to improve the lives of its citizens, and helped to spearhead profound national reforms in health, housing, planning and education. While many people in Manchester are familiar with the Simon name through Shena Simon College, Simonsway, and the Simon Building at the University of Manchester, there is scant public knowledge of who the Simons were and their legacy. As such, this edited volume of collected essays aims to illuminate their fascinating lives and public service to rehabilitate the Simons and examine their local and national significance.

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November 1996

Erinnerungen an die Zeit unter Ford

Roman

by Updike, John

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Literature & Literary Studies

August 2009

Michael Ondaatje

by Lee Spinks, John Thieme

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January 1993

Südostasien

Vor der Kolonialzeit

by Beiträge von Villiers, John; Herausgegeben von Villiers, John

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March 2002

Updike und ich

by Updike, John / Übersetzt von Höbel, Susanne

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Cultures of display and the British Empire

by John McAleer, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, John Mackenzie

Cultures of display and the British Empire

by John McAleer, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, John M. MacKenzie

New perspectives on art history

by Amelia Jones, Charles Merewether, John Potts, Marsha Meskimmon

White women and colonialism in Barbados and North Carolina, 1627–1865

by Cecily Jones, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

Landscape, exploration and empire in Southern Africa, 1780–1870

by John McAleer, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

by John Thieme, John Thieme

Metropolis, India and progress in the colonial imagination

by John Marriott, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie

Landscape, exploration and empire in Southern Africa, 1780–1870

by John McAleer, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie

by Peter-John Wormald, Peter-John

by John Thieme, John Thieme

Cultures of display and the British Empire

by John McAleer, John M. MacKenzie

by Jeff Wallace, John Whale, John Whale

by Adeline Johns-Putra, John Parham, Louise Squire

by John Thieme, John Thieme, Rebecca Mortimer

Museums and the British imperial experience

by Sarah Longair, Andrew Thompson, John McAleer, John Mackenzie

How one family shaped a city and a nation

by Martin Dodge, John Ayshford, Diana Leitch, Stuart Jones, Janet Wolff

Roman

by Updike, John

by Lee Spinks, John Thieme

Vor der Kolonialzeit

by Beiträge von Villiers, John; Herausgegeben von Villiers, John

by Updike, John / Übersetzt von Höbel, Susanne

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