Picturing Empire
Subtitle: Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: April 11, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780226732336
Subjects: Historical geography; Imperialism; Photographs: collections; World history: c 1750 to c 1900; Colonies And Colonization; Photography; History - General History; Politics/International Relations; British Empire; Anthropology - Cultural; Earth Sciences - Geography; Subjects & Themes - Travel - World/Great Britain; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Political Process - Leadership; Colonies; Great Britain; Historiography; History; Pictorial works
First sentence: Almost immediately after the invention of photography in 1839 attempts were made to employ the new technique on various European overseas explorations.