John M. MacKenzie

Popular culture is invariably a vehicle for the dominant ideas of its age. Never was this more true than in the late-19th and early 20th centuries, when it reflected the nationalist and imperialist ideologies current throughout Europe. Imperialism and Popular Culture examines the various media through which nationalist ideas were conveyed in late-Victorian and Edwardian times—such as the theatre, "ethnic"...

Museums and Empire is the first book to examine the origins and development of museums in six major regions of the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It analyses museum histories in thirteen major centres in Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, India, and South-East Asia, setting them into the economic and social contexts of the cities and...

The Orientalism debate, inspired by the work of Edward Said, has been a major source of cross-disciplinary controversy. Orientalism offers a re-evaluation of this vast literature by a historian of imperialism, giving it a historical perspective. The discussion tests the notion that the Western arts received genuine inspiration from the East by examining the visual arts, architecture, design, music, and...