Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England

by Annie E. Coombes

Book Overview

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. Through a series of detailed case studies, Coombes analyzes the popular and scientific knowledge of Africa which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300068905
• ISBN13: 9780300068900
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 10.0"