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the visual cultures of White Atlantic worlds
1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations (black and white.
Daguerreotypes, the vanishing Native American and the invention of Western typologies -- Mathew Brady's Civil War, daguerreotypes and the technological redefinition of White nationalism -- Ain't I a human : Louis Agassiz's slave daguerreotypes and White scientific voyeurism -- How the West was won : America at the Great Exhibition of 1851 -- The founding of the great White world : the Arctic daguerreotypes -- White aesthetics : daguerreotypes in the consolidation of Colonial empires in West Africa -- Lewis Carroll and the imperial eroticisation of White childhood -- Material agency : the Eames Office, race, and US Cold War photographic aesthetics -- The apple and the Anthropocene : the Whiteness of Silicon Valley's digital ecologies.
Includes bibliographical references and index.