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Persuasion and propaganda : monuments and the eighteenth-century British Empire /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coutu, Joan Michèle, 1964-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2006]
Subjects:
Monuments > Colonies > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Display and dynasty
  • The colonial trade in monuments
  • Heroic imagery? The monument to Wolfe in Westminster Abbey
  • Precedents and parallels: the Grenville Commission
  • Magnanimity? The bust of George III in Montreal
  • Reassurances of liberty: public monuments in the American colonies
  • Reassurances of loyalty: public commissions in the West Indies
  • India: building as a moral imperative.