Reinventing Africa: museums, material culture, and popular imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England

"Between 1890 and 1918, British colonial expansion in Africa led to the removal of many African artifacts that were subsequently brought to Britain and displayed. Annie Coombes argues that this activity had profound repercussions for the construction of a national identity within Britain itself...

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Main Author: Coombes, Annie E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven Yale University Press 1994
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Online Access:DE-255
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Summary:"Between 1890 and 1918, British colonial expansion in Africa led to the removal of many African artifacts that were subsequently brought to Britain and displayed. Annie Coombes argues that this activity had profound repercussions for the construction of a national identity within Britain itself--the effects of which are still with us today.... Pioneering in its research, this book offers valuable insights for art and design historians, historians of imperialism and anthropology, anthropologists, and museologists"--Publisher's description
Item Description:Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on June 21, 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vii, 280 Seiten) 112 Illustrationen, facsims., Karten, Pläne, port
ISBN:0300268610
9780300268614
DOI:10.37862/aaeportal.00307

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