Week 10 Exhibiting Empire: Colonial Displays
Core Readings:
Annie Coombes, Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination (1994).
Further Readings:
David Cannadine, Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire (2001).
Richard Drayton, Nature’s Government: Science, British Imperialism and the ‘Improvement’ of the World (2000).
Felix Driver and David Gilbert, eds., Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display and Identity (1999).
Peter Hoffenberg, An Empire on Display: English, Indian and Australian Exhibitions from the CrystalPalaceto the Great War (2000).