Jane Lydon

Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With their power to create a sense of proximity and empathy, photographs have long been a crucial means of exchanging ideas between people across the globe; this book explores the role of photography in shaping ideas about race and difference from the 1840s to the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 170mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781474235501
• ISBN-10: 1474235506
• Artikelnr.: 43921889

Autorenporträt

Jane Lydon is the Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History at the University of Western Australia

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire2. One Blood: The
Nucleus of the Native Church3. Veritable Apollos: Beauty, Race and
Scientists4. Blind Spots or Bearing Witness: Antislavery and Frontier
Violence in Australia5. Popularizing Anthropology: Elsie Masson and Baldwin
Spencer6. 'A Ray of Special Resemblance': H. G. Wells and Colonial
Embarrassment 7. Happy Families?: UNESCO's Human Rights Exhibition in
Australia, 1951NotesBibliographyIndex