Quilley, Geoff, Empire to nation , c2011
- Title(s):
Empire to nation : art, history and the visualization of maritime Britain 1768-1829 / Geoff Quilley.
- Additional Title(s):
Art, history and the visualization of maritime Britain 1768-1829
- Published/Created:
- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2011.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 294 p. : ill (mostly col.) ; 26 cm.
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryN72.N38 Q55 2011 (LC)Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/9913158
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- "Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art".
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Subject Terms:
- Marine art, British -- 18th century.Marine art, British -- 19th century.National characteristics, British, in art.Nationalism and art -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.Nationalism and art -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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- Introduction
- The pen in the first person : the artist as eyewitness on voyages of exploration
- 'Tahiti revisited' : the historicizing visual order of the world in the art of Cook's voyages
- A sea of faith : visualizing maritime Britain and the articulation of national identity in the Atlantic world
- 'Framed by a Black': shipwreck and masculinity in the Black Atlantic
- Commerce, luxury and the moralization of shipwreck : the East India Company
- The image of the sailor
- War and Britishness
- Battle of the pictures : painting the history of Trafalgar
- Conclusion.