Dividing the Spoils

Introduction: dividing the spoils - Henrietta Lidchi and Stuart Allan

Part I Ideologies of empire and governance
1 Spoils of war: custom and practice - Edward M. Spiers
2 The agency of objects: a contrasting choreography of flags, military booty and skulls from late nineteenth-century Africa - John Mack
3 Collecting and the trophy - John M. MacKenzie

Part II Military collecting cultures
4 Soldiering archaeology: Pitt Rivers and collecting 'Primitive Warfare' - Christopher Evans
5 The officers' mess: an anthropology and history of the military interior - Lt Col Charles Kirke (Rtd) and Nicole M. Hartwell
6 Seeing Tibet through soldiers' eyes: photograph albums in regimental museums - Henrietta Lidchi with Rosanna Nicolson
7 A regimental culture of collecting - Desmond Thomas

Part III The afterlives of military collections
8 Military histories of 'Summer Palace' objects from China in military museums in the United Kingdom - Louise Tythacott
9 Indigenising folk art: eighteenth-century powder horns in British military collections - Stuart Allan and Henrietta Lidchi
10 Community consultation and shaping of the National Army Museum's Insight gallery - Alastair Massie
11 Mementoes of power and conquest: Sikh jewellery in the collection of National Museums Scotland - Friederike Voigt

Afterword: material reckonings with military histories - Henrietta Lidchi

Archival sources
Bibliography
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