Photography, Natural History and the Nineteenth-Century Museum: Exchanging Views of Empire

Abstract

photographic diaspora, and on photography, travel and imperialism more generally, it is a stretch to see Lee’s book as either a ‘much-needed history of the emergence of Scottish pastoralism’ or ‘the first book to take up in a sustained way the relationship between the camera and globalization’, as the promotional rhetoric of the dustjacket testimonial claims. Certainly, the absence of a bibliography makes it difficult to situate the pursuit of ‘Scottishness’ within – or against – wider and more recent disciplinary frames beyond works cited.