Picturing imperial power : colonial subjects in eighteenth-century British painting / Beth Fowkes Tobin

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Contents: Introduction: Toward a cultural history of colonialism -- Bringing the Empire home: the Black servant in domestic portraiture -- Native land and foreign desires: William Penn's treaty with the Indians -- Cultural cross-dressing in British America: portraits of British officers and Mohawk warriors -- Accommodating India: domestic arrangements in Anglo-Indian family portraiture -- Taxonomy and agency in Brunias's West Indian paintings -- Imperial designs: botanical illustration and the British Botanic Empire -- The Imperial politics of the local and the universal