Domestic Archives of Empire
Photographing Burma and Reconstructing British Imperialism for the Postwar Moment
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 12914732 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Tom Allbeson (0000-0002-7597-9087, Cardiff University, autor de correspondencia), Claire Gorrara (0000-0003-0732-7666, Cardiff University) |
| Año | 2022 |
| Volumen | 15 |
| Número | 2 |
| Páginas | 233-259 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2022-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Journal of War and Culture Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1752-6272 • E-ISSN: 1752-6280 |
| Editorial | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17526272.2022.2065120 |
| OpenAlex | W4280544739 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 22 |
This article examines how photography documenting the military campaign in Burma was mobilized in efforts to reconstruct the image and idea of the British Empire at the end of the Second World War. It analyses a selection of popular publications which provided visual instruction for white Anglophone audiences, promoting continuing British imperialism after the Allied victory. These publications were intended to be kept for posterity, acting as ‘domestic archives of empire’ for Anglophone audiences across the globe. Such publications represented the empire at war and in peacetime, supposedly fit for the postwar moment. At the time of their publication, these ‘domestic archives of empire’ exhorted white Anglophone readers to view the British Empire as embodying a liberal and tolerant mission. Today, they offer insights into a vernacular history of empire on the verge of fragmentation, presaging the challenges of reconstruction and decolonization and the development of imperial nostalgia
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · British Empire · Colonialism · Decolonization · Empire · Globe · Political science · Politics · Victory · Visual arts · Visual culture · Australian History and Society · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · History · Law · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
Reporting the Retreat
Colonial Soldiers, Race, and Military Masculinities during and beyond World Wars I and II
Photographing Imperial Citizenship
Looking for The Illustrated London News in Australian Digital Newspapers
Burma, Britain, and the Commonwealth, 1946–56
The Burma Campaign on Film
At the Stroke of the Midnight Hour”
The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire
Making Enemies
Carefully Concealed Connections
Visualizing Imperial Geography
There'll Always Be an England
India, Empire, and First World War Culture
Reconstructing Empire in British and French Africa
Britain and the world, 1945-9
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
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| Altamente citado | No |