Edges of Empire

Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones is Professor of Art History and Provost at Richmond, The American International University in London. She is the author of (Re)Forming Identities: Intercultural Education and the Visual Arts (1998).Mary Roberts is the John Schaeffer Lecturer in British Art at the University of Sydney. She has co-edited two books: Orientalism’s Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography (2002) and Refracting Vision: Essays on the Writings of Michael Fried (2000).

• Series Editor's Preface. List of Illustrations.Notes on Contributors.Acknowledgements.Introduction: Visualising Culture across the Edges of Empire.(Mary Roberts and Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones).1. Commemorating the Empire: From Algiers to Damascus.(Zeynep Çelik).2. Out of the Earth, Egypt's Statue of Liberty?.(Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby).3. Cultural Crossings: Sartorial Adventures, Satiric Narratives and the Question of Indigenous Agency in Nineteenth-Century Europe and the Near East. (Mary Roberts).4. "Oriental" Femininity as Cultural Commodity: Authorship, Authority and Authenticity. (Reina Lewis).5. The Sweet Waters of Asia: Representing Difference/Differencing Representation in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul. (Frederick N. Bohrer).6. The Work of Translation: Turkish Modernism and the "Generation of 1914". (Alastair Wright).7. Stolen or Shared: Ancient Egypt at the Petrie Museum.(Sally MacDonald).8. Andalusia in the Time of the Moors: Regret and Colonial Presence in Paris, 1900. (Roger Benjamin).Bibliography (Hannah Williams).Index.

"A pioneering collection of essays that offers a truly transnational approach to cross-cultural exchange. With great clarity and imagination, Edges of Empire forces us to re-think Orientalism both historically and politically." Michael Hatt, Yale University