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Informationen zum Autor Sarah Longair is Education Manager at the British Museum and was awarded her PhD from Birkbeck, University of London in 2012 John McAleer is Curator of Eighteenth-Century Imperial and Maritime History at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis General editor's introductionIntroduction: Curating empire: Museums and the British imperial experience - Sarah Longair and John McAleer1. 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: Maori in New Zealand museums and exhibitions - Conal McCarthy4. Curiosities or science in the National Museum of Victoria: Procurement networks and the purpose of a museum - Gareth Knapman5. 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 Index...
