Picturing empire : photography and the visualization of the British Empire / James R. Ryan.
Picturing empire : photography and the visualization of the British Empire / James R. Ryan.
Picturing empire : photography and the visualization of the British Empire / James R. Ryan.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997.
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1997.
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N941.08/12
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English
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272 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997.
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Illinois
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1997.
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When we think of the tools used to build the British Empire, we seldom include photography among them. Yet as James R. Ryan argues in Picturing Empire, photographic practices and aesthetics played a crucial role in expressing and articulating the ideologies of imperialism driving British exploration and colonization.
A detailed discussion of the Abyssinian Campaign (1867-8) reveals how photography and geography were mutually associated in imperial warfare; this collaboration, expanded to include anthropology, also served in the survey and classification of "racial types." In addition, photography allowed the British to "hunt with the camera," both for big game...
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Picturing empire : photography and the visualization of the British Empire / James R. Ryan.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-266) and index.
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N941.08/12
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74VM4JjzmMGA
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0226732339 (alk. paper)
9780226732336 (alk. paper)
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941.08
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991001385139702626
