[Commlist] New book: De-Illustrating the History of the British Empire. Preliminary perspectives

New book: De-Illustrating the History of the British Empire. Preliminary 
perspectives, edited by Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes (Routledge, 2021), 
https://bit.ly/3x31ai3 (ISBN 9781032006802. Also available in eBook).
 “This book achieves the useful purpose of explaining how art 
influences historical understanding. Perceptions change over time, and 
one of the book’s strong points is its examination of the evolving 
assumptions of artists as well as political figures, including radicals 
who challenged the altruism of British expansion […] What the volume 
does above all is to relate the changing circumstances of the empire 
over time as portrayed by artists, photographers, and propagandists. It 
calls attention to the different ways in which painted, printed, and 
photographic evidence reflected the lives and cultures of the peoples of 
the empire as well as the British. Miniature drawings, battle paintings, 
and commemorative portraits in the eighteenth century gave way to 
newspaper drawings, newsreels, and advertisements in magazines such as 
Punch that celebrated British political and commercial rule across a 
quarter of the world.” Professor Wm. Roger Louis, Editor-in-chief of The 
Oxford History of the British Empire series.
 Editor: Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes, Fellow and Tutor of Clare Hall, 
member of the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement, and 
visiting lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology, University 
of Cambridge.
 Table of Contents
1. Preliminary Perspectives, Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes
2. On Visual Rhetoric and British Imperial History, Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes
3. Art and Illustration: Re-viewing Empire, Carol Jacobi
4. A Visual History of a Hidden Exploration of Mid-19th Century Tibet: 
the British Library’s Wise Collection, Diana Lange
5. Illustrating the Warriors of Empire, Philip John Hatfield
6. Selling British "Empire-Consciousness": Imperial Rhetoric and 
Advertising Poetics, Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes
  Apologies for cross-posting.

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