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First contact ; Cult of progress / David Olusoga.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Civilisations | CivilisationsPublisher: London, Great Britain : Profile Books Ltd, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 303 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781781259979
  • 1781259976
Other title:
  • Cult of progress
Subject(s):
Contents:
First Contact -- Victorian Disbelief -- A Manner Nation -- Invaders and Looting -- Justifying Conquest -- Keeping an Eye on Culture -- Embracing the New -- Acts of Empire -- Cult of Progress -- The Lure of the Pharaohs -- Revolution in the Midlands -- The City and the Slum -- The American Wilderness -- The Course of Empire -- The Theft of Identity -- Portraits for Posterity -- The Advent of the Camera -- An Artistic Response to Progress -- An Exotic Escape -- Transformations -- The Plunge of Europe.
Summary: Kenneth Clark's 1969 BBC series Civilisation (note the singular) is perhaps the most celebrated documentary series ever made, except that it was entirely of its time: patrician to the exclusion of women and western to the exclusion of all other cultures. Spring 2018 sees an ambitious 10-part BBC re-make, presented by Britain's foremost historians, embracing global civilisations and exploring different themes in the universal histories of art and culture.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

There is nothing simple about the idea of civilisation. It is a concept with multiple and contested meanings. Prefix it with the word 'western' and you have a whole new set of problems. Equally thorny is the belief, once commonplace, that civilisation was a singular project, a phenomenon that spread across parts of the world from a single source. The view that multiple civilisations emerged independently at various times and in various places across the world was not an idea many Victorian thinkers had much time for. Indeed, in the age of European Empires, nations justified their domination of other peoples by claiming they were engaged in a great 'civilising mission'. Perhaps all that is certain about the concept of civilisation is that its opposite, barbarism, is toxic. In Civilisations, David Olusoga travels the world to piece together the shared histories that link nations.In Part One, First Contact, we discover what happened to art in the great Age of Discovery, when civilisations encountered each other for the first time? Although undoubtedly a period of conquest and destruction it was also one of mutual curiosity, global trade and the exchange of ideas In Part Two, The Cult of Progress we see how the Industrial Revolution transformed the world, impacting every corner, and every civilisation, from the cotton mills of the Midlands, through Napoleon's conquest of Egypt, to the demise of both Native American and Maori populations and the advent of photography in Paris in 1839.Incredible art - both looted and created - relay the key events and their outcomes throughout the world.

"As seen on the BBC"--Jacket.

"Published in conjunction with the BBC's Civilisations series"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-285) and index.

Kenneth Clark's 1969 BBC series Civilisation (note the singular) is perhaps the most celebrated documentary series ever made, except that it was entirely of its time: patrician to the exclusion of women and western to the exclusion of all other cultures. Spring 2018 sees an ambitious 10-part BBC re-make, presented by Britain's foremost historians, embracing global civilisations and exploring different themes in the universal histories of art and culture.

First Contact -- Victorian Disbelief -- A Manner Nation -- Invaders and Looting -- Justifying Conquest -- Keeping an Eye on Culture -- Embracing the New -- Acts of Empire -- Cult of Progress -- The Lure of the Pharaohs -- Revolution in the Midlands -- The City and the Slum -- The American Wilderness -- The Course of Empire -- The Theft of Identity -- Portraits for Posterity -- The Advent of the Camera -- An Artistic Response to Progress -- An Exotic Escape -- Transformations -- The Plunge of Europe.

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