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Description: | By 1900 Huntley & Palmers had sales representatives across the world including South Africa. In 1906 South Africa accounted for 6.8% of the company's overseas trade and the rest of Africa for 11.7%, making the African continent the second most important export market after the Far East. In his 1899 novel 'Heart of Darkness', Joseph Conrad used Huntley & Palmers as a symbol of imperial power and destruction: 'It was a great comfort to turn... to my influential friend, the battered, twisted, ruined, tin-pot steamboat. I clambered on board. She ran under my feet like an empty Huntley and Palmer biscuit tin...' (Penguin Classic, 1955 page 52). Conrad is using the tin to criticise the superficial civilisation of the west and its failed attempts to tame and 'civilise' Africa. The tin is decorative but useless in its present environment; hollow, 'battered' and 'ruined'. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | building environment social history trade packaging street scene packing case people | Temporal: | start=1885-01-01; end=1895-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Denis Bros | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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