Acknowledgements

Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of figures vii
4. List of contributors xi
5. Preface xv
6. Acknowledgements xviii
7. List of abbreviations xix
8. Introduction 1
9. Part I: Ideologies of empire and governance
10. 1 Spoils of war 19
11. 2 The agency of objects 39
12. 3 Collecting and the trophy 60
13. Part II: Military collecting cultures
14. 4 Soldiering archaeology 85
15. 5 The officers’ mess 106
16. 6 Seeing Tibet through soldiers’ eyes 128
17. 7 A regimental culture of collecting 162
18. 8 Military histories of ‘Summer Palace’ objects from China in military museums in the United Kingdom 187
19. 9 Indigenising folk art 205
20. 10 Community consultation and the shaping of the National Army Museum’s Insight gallery 229
21. 11 Mementoes of power and conquest 247
22. Afterword 269
23. Archival sources 284
24. Bibliography 287
25. Index 314