Persuasion and Propaganda: Monuments and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire

by Joan Coutu

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773531300
• ISBN13: 9780773531307
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 496 Pages