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Persuasion and Propaganda : Monuments and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
ISBN: 9780773576643
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / McGill-Queen''s University Press
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Subjects: History;

In the eighteenth century sugar planters, merchants, aristocrats, politicians, and governments erected hundreds of commemorative monuments throughout the British Empire as expressions of social status, personal dynasties, territorial occupation, and imperial ambitions. In a culture transformed by the rising merchant class, these monuments - inherently public and hopefully permanent - underscored the economic, political, and cultural complexities of the emerging empire.

Joan Coutu is professor of art history and visual culture at the University of Waterloo and the author of Then and Now: Collecting and Classicism in Eighteenth-Century England.Joan Coutu is associate professor, fine arts, University of Waterloo.