Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
Between 1890 and 1918, British colonial expansion in Africa led to the removal of many African artifacts that were subsequently brought to Britain and displayed. Annie Coombes argues that this activity had profound repercussions for the construction of a national identity within Britain...
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Between 1890 and 1918, British colonial expansion in Africa led to the removal of many African artifacts that were subsequently brought to Britain and displayed. Annie Coombes argues that this activity had profound repercussions for the construction of a national identity within Britain itself--the effects of which are still with us today.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780300068900 (0300068905)
Publish date: October 20th 1997
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages no: 292
Edition language: English
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