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Imperialism

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Images from the collections

Images about Imperialism

17 images from works
  • A parody astrological diagram showing opposing aspects of the life of settlers in Jamaica: langorous noons and the hells of yellow fever. Coloured aquatint after A.James, 1800.
  • An Indian commandant: his wife handing him some betel leaves. Gouache drawing.
  • The holy Cow personified as World Mother with many Sanskrit verses. Chromolithograph.
  • The discovery of herbal medicines, their transport by ship from the East Indies and their presentation to the pagan deities. Engraving after Adolf van der Laan, 1741.
  • A white doctor vaccinating African girls all wearing European clothes at a mission station. Process print by Meisenbach after a photograph.
  • The discovery of herbal medicines, their transport by ship from the East Indies and their presentation to the pagan deities. Engraving after Adolf van der Laan, 1741.
  • A white doctor vaccinating a African child, surrounded by crowds of women and children waiting to be vaccinated. Process print by Meisenbach after a photograph.
  • Playground of the Home and Colonial Infant School Society, London. Wood engraving, c. 1840.
  • The holy Cow personified as World Mother with many Sanskrit verses. Chromolithograph.
  • A parody astrological diagram showing opposing aspects of the life of settlers in Jamaica: langorous noons and the hells of yellow fever. Coloured aquatint after A.James, 1800.
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Works from the collections

72 works

    • Film

    Tsetse Film P. A. Buxton Part One

    | Date: 1945-6
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Playground of the Home and Colonial Infant School Society, London. Wood engraving, c. 1840.

    | Reference: 24350i
    • E-books
    • Online

    Imperialism, power, and identity : experiencing the Roman empire / David J. Mattingly.

    David Mattingly | Date: c2011
    • Books

    Bioinsecurities : disease interventions, empire, and the government of species / Neel Ahuja.

    Ahuja, Neel, 1980- | Date: 2016
    • Videos

    Tsetse Film P. A. Buxton Part Two

    | Date: 1945-6
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Related topics

Colonies
India
Tsetse Flies
Agriculture
Land settlement
Colonialism
19th-20th centuries
Weapons
Body armor
Battles

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