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The British Empire constituted an economic and political presence that was felt far beyond the borders of her official colonies and territories in the nineteenth-century Mediterranean. People of the region became entangled within imperial networks that included a wide range of global goods, including British-made goods. Mass-produced ceramics of the nineteenth century offer multiple avenues for investigating Britain’s imperial past, as do locally-produced imitation ceramics, which were often initiated with British economic, technological, and artisanal input. British transfer-printed earthenware was produced for specific, local markets and stoneware bottles were shipped empty, to be filled locally by entrepreneurs utilizing imperial business networks. This talk will conceive of British ceramics as vectors of empire, focusing on the ways in which they form sites of interaction that trouble territory-based notions of the colonialism and the disciplinary borders between material culture studies and business history.
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