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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

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

    | Reference: 24350i
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    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
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    Orientalism / Edward W. Said.

    Edward Said | Date: 1978
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    The Congress of Berlin: Disraeli as a tooth-drawer, assisted by Queen Victoria, operates on Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire, surrounded by political figures from France, Germany etc. Coloured lithograph by J.J. van Brederode after Jan Steen, 1878.

    Jan Steen | Date: [between 1800 and 1899] | Reference: 778482i
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India
Colonialism
19th-20th centuries
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Body armor
Battles
Public Health
Africa
History, 19th Century

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