Drawing together an international group of scholars from a variety of disciplinary and cultural backgrounds, Colonialism and the Object explores the impact of colonial contact with other cultures on t
Discusses the impact of colonial contact with other cultures on the material culture of both the colonized and the imperial nation. Fourteen contributions by scholars from a variety of disciplinary an
This original collection of writings reinterprets the art of Frederic Leighton (1830-1896), challenging the view that limits him to the category of 'Victorian artist' and revealing his broader signifi