Author: Ceylon Chamber of Commerce
Publisher:
Published: 1910
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reports for -1931 include Correspondence, circulars, etc. for the second half year.
Author: John M. MacKenzie
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2017-03-01
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1526119544
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It has been said that the British Empire, on which the sun never set, meant little to the man in the street. Apart from the jingoist eruptions at the death of Gordon or the relief of Mafeking he remained stonily indifferent to the imperial destiny that beckoned his rulers so alluringly. Strange, then that for three-quarters of a century it was scarcely possible to buy a bar of soap or a tin of biscuits without being reminded of the idea of Empire. Packaging, postcards, music hall, cinema, boy's stories and school books, exhibitions and parades, all conveyed the message that Empire was an adventure and an ennobling responsibility. Army and navy were a sure shield for the mother country and the subject peoples alike. Boys' brigades and Scouts stiffened the backbone of youth who flocked to join. In this illuminating study John M. Mackenzie explores the manifestations of the imperial idea, from the trappings of royalty through writers like G. A. Henty to the humble cigarette card. He shows that it was so powerful and pervasive that it outlived the passing of Empire itself and, as events such as the Falklands 'adventure' showed, the embers continue to smoulder.
Author: Kate Nichols
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2017-02-02
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1526114941
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Echoing Joseph Paxton's question at the close of the Great Exhibition, 'What is to become of the Crystal Palace?', this interdisciplinary essay collection argues that there is considerable potential in studying this unique architectural and art-historical document after 1851, when it was rebuilt in the South London suburb of Sydenham. It brings together research on objects, materials and subjects as diverse as those represented under the glass roof of the Sydenham Palace itself; from the Venus de Milo to Sheffield steel, souvenir 'peep eggs' to war memorials, portrait busts to imperial pageants, tropical plants to cartoons made by artists on the spot, copies of paintings from ancient caves in India to 1950s film. Essays do not simply catalogue and collect this eclectic congregation, but provide new ways for assessing the significance of the Sydenham Crystal Palace for both nineteenth- and twentieth-century studies. The volume will be of particular interest to researchers and students of British cultural history, museum studies, and art history.
Author: Toronto Public Library
Publisher:
Published: 1911
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kate Nichols
Publisher: Classical Presences
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0199596468
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Kate Nichols examines the debates that arose around the presentation of classical plaster casts to a mass audience at the Sydenham Crystal Palace, in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. It uncovers the social, political, and aesthetic role of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture in Victorian and Edwardian culture, assessing how classical art and architecture figured in debates over design reform, taste, beauty and morality, race and imperialism.
Author: Cheryl Buckley
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2007-10
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781861893222
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Employing numerous examples of classic British design, Designing Modern Britain delves into the history of British design culture, and thereby tracks the evolution of the British national identity.