Picturing Imperial Power

by Tobin, Beth Fowkes

• ISBN13: 9780822323051
• ISBN10: 0822323052
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"Tobin combines an exacting and often lyrical evocation of visual effects in the paintings she considers with the explication of a remarkable range of historical occasions, situations, and transitions. Through her patient accounting of individual images, she opens up wide vistas on the operations of British colonialism while still rendering those operations with dimensionality and great nuance."--Jill Campbell, author o"f Nature's Masques: Gender and Identity in Fielding's Plays and Novels"

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Toward a Cultural History of Colonialism

Bringing the Empire Home: The Black Servant in Domestic Portraiture

Native Land and Foreign Desires: William Penn's Treaty with the Indians

Cultural Cross-Dressing in British America: Portraits of British Officers and Mohawk Warriors

Accomodating India: Domestic Arrangements in Anglo-Indian Family Portraiture

Taxonomy and Agency in Brunias's West Indian Paintings

Imperial Designs: Botanical Illustration and the British Botanic Empire

The Imperial Politics of the Local and the Universal

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

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