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Curating Empire - Museums and the British Imperial Experience (Paperback)
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Curating Empire - Museums and the British Imperial Experience (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Imperialism
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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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