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Author:

Hoock, Holger.

Title:

Empires of the imagination : politics, war and the arts in the British world, 1750-1850 / Holger Hoock.

Publisher:

Profile Books,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xxx, 514 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Great Britain--Civilization--19th century.
Art and state--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Art and state--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Great Britain--Civilization--18th century.
Politische Kultur
Künste
Großbritannien
Geschichte 1750-1850
Geschichte 1750-1850

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-488) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : Sinews of power and empires of the imagination -- War, art and commemoration (c.1750-1815): America ; The art of remembering and forgetting ; Transatlantic journeys -- Britain, Europe, Empire: 'Pretensions to permanency' ; Modern heroes -- Empire, archaeology, and collecting (c.1760-c.1850): The Mediterranean and the Near East ; India -- Capital of culture (1815-c.1850: Pomp and circumstance in London -- Conclusions: Cultural politics, state, war, and empire -- Epilogue: Empires imagined at the Great Exhibition.

Summary:

"Over the course of the century after 1750, Britain evolved from a substantial international power yet relative artistic backwater into a global superpower and a leading cultural force in Europe. Empires of the Imagination illuminates the manifold ways in which the culture of power and the power of culture were interwoven in this period of dramatic change. Britons invested artistic and imaginative effort to come to terms with the loss of the American colonies; to sustain the generation-long fight against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France; and to assert and legitimate their growing empire in India."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

1861978596
9781861978592

OCLC:

(OCoLC)441147687

LCCN:

2010398429

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)