Material culture at the crossroads of knowledge - the case of the Benin "bronzes"; voices in the wilderness - critics of empire; aesthetic pleasure and institutional power; the spectacle of empire 1 - expansionism and philanthropy at the "Stanley and the African" exhibition; the spectacle of empire 2 - exhibitionary narratives; temples of empire - the museum and its publics; containing the continent - ethnographies on display; "For God and For England" - missionary contributions to an image of Africa; national unity and racial and ethnic identities - the Franco-British exhibition of 1908; conclusion; epilogue - inventing the "Post-Colonial".
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