Coombes, Annie E.

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

Acknowledgements vi Introduction 1(6) 1 Material Culture at the Crossroads of Knowledge: The Case of the Benin `Bronzes' 7(22) 2 Voices in the Wilderness: Critics of Empire 29(14) 3 Aesthetic Pleasure and Institutional Power 43(20) 4 The Spectacle of Empire 1: Expansionism and Philanthropy at the Stanley and African Exhibition 63(22) 5 The Spectacle of Empire 2: Exhibitionary Narratives 85(24) 6 Temples of Empire: The Museum and its Publics 109(20) 7 Containing the Continent: Ethnographies on Display 129(32) 8 `For God and For England': Missionary Contributions to an Image of Africa 161(26) 9 National Unity and Racial and Ethnic Identities: The Franco-British Exhibition of 1908 187(27) Conclusion 214(3) Epilogue: Inventing the `Post-Colonial' 217(9) Notes 226(33) Bibliography 259(17) Index 276