Museums and Empire is the first book to examine the origins and development of museums in six major regions of the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentiet

Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces o

Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and representing the British imperial experience. The establishment

Possessors and Possessed analyzes how and why museums—characteristically Western institutions—emerged in the late-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. Shaw ar