Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. List of Figures xiii
5. Introduction 3
6. Family Empires
7. Display and Dynasty 26
8. The Colonial Trade in Monuments 80
9. Official Empire
10. Heroic Imagery? The Monument to Wolfe in Westminster Abbey 103
11. Precedents and Parallels: The Grenville Commissions 147
12. Empire Secured?
13. Magnanimity? The Bust of George III in Montreal 181
14. Reassurances of Liberty: Public Monuments in the American Colonies 195
15. Empire Renewed
16. Reassurances of Loyalty: Public Commissions in the West Indies 238
17. India: Empire Building as a Moral Imperative 271
18. Conclusion 322
19. Excerpt from the Agreement between Joseph Wilton and William Young for the Ottley Monument, St John’s Church, Antigua, 21 August 1767 329
20. Advice Concerning a Monument to Major General Wolfe 330
21. Correspondence of Charles Garth, Joseph Wilton, and the Committee of Correspondence of the Commons House of Assembly of South Carolina Concerning the Monument of William Pitt for Charleston, 1766–70 334
22. Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century Monuments in North America and the British West Indies 344
23. Notes 365
24. Bibliography 407
25. Index 435