Reinventing Africa : museums, material culture, and popular imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England /

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Author / Creator:Coombes, Annie E., author.
Imprint:New Haven : Yale University Press, 1994.
Description:1 online resource (vii, 280 pages) : 112 illustrations, facsims., maps, plans, port.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13424285
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Other authors / contributors:Yale University Press, publisher.
ISBN:9780300268614
0300268610
0300059728
9780300059724
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-275) and index.
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Summary:"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.... Pioneering in its research, this book offers valuable insights for art and design historians, historians of imperialism and anthropology, anthropologists, and museologists"--Publisher's description.
Other form:Print version: Coombes, Annie E. Reinventing Africa. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1994 0300059728