Museums and Empire

John MacKenzie is Emeritus Professor of Imperial History, Lancaster University and holds Honorary Professorships at Aberdeen, St Andrews and Stirling, as well as an Honorary Fellowship at Edinburgh

• Acknowledgements List of abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Canada: the origins of colonial museums 3. Canada: the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto and the Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria 4. South Africa: the South African Museum, Cape Town 5. South Africa: the Albany Museum, Grahamstown 6. Australia: Museums in Sydney and Melbourne 7. Australia: the South Australian Museum, Adelaide 8. New Zealand/Aotearoa: the War Memorial Museum, Auckland 9. new Zealand/Aotearoa: the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch 10. Museums in Asia 11. Conclusion Index

John M. MacKenzie has written a fascinating work...A review cannot do justice to the richness and value of this work"Museums and Empire" is an exceptional book, and it is hard to do justice to its enormous scope, depth of study, and complete erudition. The text should be on the reading list of every Museum Studies course.