TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hoock,Holger
TI  - Empires of the imagination: politics, war and the arts in the British world, 1750-1850 
SN  - 9781861978592
AV  - 322 DA 485 H776e 2010
U1  - 941.073 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London
PB  - Profile Books
KW  - Art and state
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Politische Kultur
KW  - swd
KW  - Kèunste
KW  - Civilization
KW  - GroÇbritannien
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-488) and index; Introduction : Sinews of power and empires of the imagination -- War, art and commemoration (c.1750-1815): America ; The art of remembering and forgetting ; Transatlantic journeys -- Britain, Europe, Empire: 'Pretensions to permanency' ; Modern heroes -- Empire, archaeology, and collecting (c.1760-c.1850): The Mediterranean and the Near East ; India -- Capital of culture (1815-c.1850: Pomp and circumstance in London -- Conclusions: Cultural politics, state, war, and empire -- Epilogue: Empires imagined at the Great Exhibition
ER  -