John Marriott 
The other empire [EPUB ebook] 
Metropolis, India and progress in the colonial imagination

Ajutor

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This is a detailed study of the various ways in which London and India were imaginatively constructed by British observers during the nineteenth century. This process took place within a unified field of knowledge that brought together travel and evangelical accounts to exert a formative influence on the creation of London and India for the domestic reading public. Their distinct narratives, rhetoric and chronologies forged homologies between representations of the metropolitan poor and colonial subjects – those constituencies that were seen as the most threatening to imperial progress. Thus the poor and particular sections of the Indian population were inscribed within discourses of western civilization as regressive and inferior peoples. Over time these discourses increasingly promoted notions of overt and rigid racial hierarchies, of which a legacy still remains. Drawing upon cultural and intellectual history this comparative study seeks to rethink the location of the poor and India within the nineteenth-century imagination.

€0.00
Metode de plata

Cuprins

Introduction: Metropolis and India 1. The antinomies of progress 2. Desarts of Africa or Arabia 3. The intimate connexion 4. A complete cyclopaedia 5. So immense an empire 6. In darkest England 7. The great museum of races Conclusion Index

Despre autor

John Mac Kenzie is Emeritus Professor of Imperial History, Lancaster University and holds Honorary Professorships at Aberdeen, St Andrews and Stirling, as well as an Honorary Fellowship at Edinburgh.

Cumpărați această carte electronică și primiți încă 1 GRATUIT!
Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● Pagini 256 ● ISBN 9781847795397 ● Mărime fișier 2.4 MB ● Vârstă 22-99 ani ● Editura Manchester University Press ● Oraș Manchester ● Țară GB ● Publicat 2013 ● Descărcabil 24 luni ● Valută EUR ● ID 3996870 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
Necesită un cititor de ebook capabil de DRM

Mai multe cărți electronice de la același autor (i) / Editor

224.853 Ebooks din această categorie