Picturing imperial power : colonial subjects in eighteenth-century British painting / Beth Fowkes Tobin
Author(s): Tobin, Beth Fowkes
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- Picturing imperial power : colonial subjects in eighteenth-century British painting
- Author(s)
- Tobin, Beth Fowkes
- Publisher
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1999.
- Collation
- xiv, 306 p. : ill.
24 cm. - ISBN
- 0822323389
- Dewey Class
- 758.9325341
- Contents
- Introduction: Toward a Cultural History of Colonialism -- I. Bringing the Empire Home: The Black Servant in Domestic Portraiture -- 2. Native Land and Foreign Desires: William Penn's Treaty with the Indians -- 3. Cultural Cross-Dressing in British America: Portraits of British Officers and Mohawk Warriors -- 4. Accommodating India: Domestic Arrangements in Anglo-Indian Family Portraiture -- 5. Taxonomy and Agency in Brunia's West Indian Paintings -- 6. Imperial Designs: Botanical Illustration and the British Botanic Empire -- 7. The Imperial Politics of the Local and the Universal.
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Painting, British -- 18th century -- Themes, motives.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- In art. - BRN
- 5980
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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