Picturing imperial power : colonial subjects in eighteenth-century British painting / / Beth Fowkes Tobin |
Autore | Tobin Beth Fowkes |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Durham, N.C. : , : Duke University Press, , 1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
Disciplina | 758/.9325341 |
Soggetto topico | Painting, British - 18th century - Themes, motives |
ISBN | 0-8223-9749-8 |
Classificazione | LO 62140 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: toward a cultural history of colonialism -- Bringing the empire home: the Black servant in domestic portraiture -- Native land and foreign desires: William Penn's Treaty with the Indians -- Cultural cross-dressing in British America: portraits of British officers and Mohawk warriors -- Accommodating India: domestic arrangements in Anglo-Indian family portraiture -- Taxonomy and agency in Brunias's West Indian paintings -- Imperial designs: botanical illustration and the British botanic empire -- Imperial politics of the local and the universal. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787045503321 |
Tobin Beth Fowkes | ||
Durham, N.C. : , : Duke University Press, , 1999 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Picturing imperial power : colonial subjects in eighteenth-century British painting / / Beth Fowkes Tobin |
Autore | Tobin Beth Fowkes |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Durham, N.C. : , : Duke University Press, , 1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
Disciplina | 758/.9325341 |
Soggetto topico | Painting, British - 18th century - Themes, motives |
ISBN | 0-8223-9749-8 |
Classificazione | LO 62140 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: toward a cultural history of colonialism -- Bringing the empire home: the Black servant in domestic portraiture -- Native land and foreign desires: William Penn's Treaty with the Indians -- Cultural cross-dressing in British America: portraits of British officers and Mohawk warriors -- Accommodating India: domestic arrangements in Anglo-Indian family portraiture -- Taxonomy and agency in Brunias's West Indian paintings -- Imperial designs: botanical illustration and the British botanic empire -- Imperial politics of the local and the universal. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807843403321 |
Tobin Beth Fowkes | ||
Durham, N.C. : , : Duke University Press, , 1999 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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