Picturing Imperial Power
Colonial Subjects in Eighteenth-Century British Painting
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Gewicht:
730 g
Format:
241x164x29 mm
Beschreibung:
An interdisciplinary study of visual representations of British colonial power in the eighteenth century.
Examines the intersection of visual culture and political power in late-eighteenth-century British painting. This book contributes to an understanding of colonialism as a collection of social, economic, political, and epistemological practices. It is of interest to students of colonialism, imperial history, and post colonial history.
CONTENTS List of illustrations; Acknowledgements Introduction: toward a cultural history of colonialism Bringing the empire home: the black servant in domestic portraiture Native land and foreign desires: William Penn's Treaty with the Indians Cultural cross-dressing in British America: portraits of British officers and Mohawk warriors Accommodating India: domestic arrangements in Anglo-Indian family portraiture Taxonomy and agency in Brunias's West Indian paintings Imperial designs: botanical illustration and the British botanic empire The imperial politics of the local and the universal Notes; Bibliography; Index