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Author: Festival of Empire Imperial Exhibition and Pageant of London, 1911 (LONDON)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Festival of Empire, Imperial Exhibition, Pageant of London. [An Illustrated Guide.].
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Author: Festival of Empire Imperial Exhibition and Pageant of London, 1911 (LONDON)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Colonial Photography and Exhibitions
Author: Anne MaxwellPublisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
4e de couverture : This book investigates the historical practice of producing stereotyped spectacles of colonized peoples at the great exhibitions and in colonial photography, and relates it to the shaping of European and settler identities. In doing so, it singles out the homogeneous aspects of colonialism's culture as well as distinguishing its discontinuities. By comparing the images produced in Britain and France with those produced in North America, Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific, Japan, and China, it proposes that differences in representations of colonized peoples between the imperial centres and the colonies were the result of different social and political agendas. By focusing on the images connected to anthropology, dying race theory, travel, tourism, and portraiture, Maxwell argues that while some photographs were directed at naturalizing the precept of colonialism, others were used to criticize it and to empower indigenous subjects. Written from a postcolonial perspective, and pursuing an interdisciplinary approach, this book will be of interest to scholars, students, and researchers intent on knowing more about the images of racial and cultural difference that shaped our immediate past.
Imperial cities
Author: Felix DriverPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526117967
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Imperial cities explores the influence of imperialism in the landscapes of modern European cities including London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Marseilles, Glasgow and Seville. Examines large-scale architectural schemes and monuments, including the Queen Victoria Memorial in London and the Vittoriano in Rome. Focuses on imperial display throughout the city, from spectacular exhibitions and ceremonies, to more private displays of empire in suburban gardens. Cconsiders the changing cultural and political identities in the imperial city, looking particularly at nationalism, masculinity and anti-imperialism.
Ralph Vaughan Williams' Wind Works
Author: Jon C. MitchellPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781574630985
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
(Meredith Music Resource). This exciting work, by one of today's most highly regarded music scholars, brings new light to the more than two dozen works by Ralph Vaughan Williams for military band, brass band and wind ensemble. Vaughan Williams' unique relationship with fellow composer Gustav Holst is examined as well as his relationships with personnel at the Royal Military School of Music, the BBC and the Salvation Army. There's much more in this hard-to-put-down volume for conductors, performers, students and aficionados! "...the contributions of Jon Mitchell have become a cornerstone of serious scholarship in our field. ...a welcome insight into the life and works of Vaughan Williams. Contained within are valuable insights into the world of Vaughan Williams that, for the majority of us, will be an undiscovered country." Craig Kirchhoff Professor of Music/Director of Bands University of Minnesota (a href="http://youtu.be/8U3fN1SPXVE" target="_blank")Click here for a YouTube video on Ralph Vaughan Williams' Wind Works(/a)
London and Its Environs
Author: Karl BaedekerPublisher:
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
PAST & PRESENT
Author: The Sketch
Author: An Empire on Display
Author: Peter H. HoffenbergPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520922969
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
The exhibitions of the Victorian and Edwardian eras are the lens through which this book examines the economic, cultural, and social forces that helped define Britain and the Empire. It focuses on exhibitions in England, Australia, and India from the Great Exhibition to the Festival of Empire.
A Contemporary Archaeology of London’s Mega Events
Author: Jonathan GardnerPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787358445
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A Contemporary Archaeology of London’s Mega Events explores the traces of London’s most significant modern ‘mega events’. Though only open for a few weeks or months, mega events permanently and disruptively reshape their host cities and societies: they demolish and rebuild whole districts, they draw in materials and participants from around the globe and their organisers self-consciously seek to leave a ‘legacy’ that will endure for decades or more. With London as his case study, Jonathan Gardner argues that these spectacles must be seen as long-lived and persistent, rather than simply a transient or short-term phenomena. Using a novel methodology drawn from the subfield of contemporary archaeology – the archaeology of the recent past and present-day – a broad range of comparative studies are used to explore the long-term history of each event. These include the contents and building materials of the Great Exhibition’s Crystal Palace and their extraordinary ‘afterlife’ at Sydenham, South London; how the Festival of Britain’s South Bank Exhibition employed displays of ancient history to construct a new post-war British identity; and how London 2012, as the latest of London’s mega events, dealt with competing visions of the past as archaeology, waste and ‘heritage’ in creating a vision of the future.
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