De-Illustrating the History of the British Empire

Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes is Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology, a Member of the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement, and Official Fellow and Graduate Tutor at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.

• 1. Preliminary Perspectives 2. On Visual Rhetoric and British Imperial History 3. Art and Illustration: Re-viewing Empire 4. A Visual History of a Hidden Exploration of Mid-19th Century Tibet: the British Library’s Wise Collection 5. Illustrating the Warriors of Empire 6. Selling British "Empire-Consciousness": Imperial Rhetoric and Advertising Poetics

"All in all, De-Illustrating the History of the British Empire with its wide range of visual source materials underlines how images have contributed to imperial myth-making and examines their legacy in a postcolonial world... the single articles are highly recommendable to cultural studies researchers with an interest in cultural history, visual culture, or imperial history." - Nora Pleßke, Journal for the Study of British Cultures