Peter H. Hoffenberg
Associate Professor
Sakamaki Hall B410
(808) 956-8497
peterh(at)hawaii.edu
[BA Harvard, 1983; MA, PhD California-Berkeley, 1987, 1993]
Modern Britain; British Empire and Commonwealth; Comparative Colonialism and Imperialism; Economic History
Representative Publications:
An Empire on Display: English, Indian and Australian Exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War (Berkeley, 2001).
“Socialist and Orientalist? William Morris and the ‘Eastern’ Question of Indian Art,” Australian Victorian Studies Journal (2004).
“Promoting Traditional Indian Art at Home and Abroad: The Journal of Indian Art and Industry, 1884-1917,” Victorian Periodicals Review: Special Issue on The Nineteenth-Century Press in India (2004).
“Photography and Architecture at the Calcutta International Exhibition, 1883-84,” in Traces of India: Photography, Architecture, and the Politics of Representation, 1850-1900 (Montreal, 2003).
“David Cannadine and the Decline and Fall of Britain’s Imperial Aristocracy,” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History (2002).