Serving Empire, Serving Nation
Title | Serving Empire, Serving Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Jason Freitag |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 247 |
Release | 2009-07-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9047429389 |
James Tod’s Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan was crucial in forming the modern image of the Rājpūt, a princely “martial” caste resident in India’s northwest desert. This book explores the relationships between the political power of the British imperial state, the construction of historical memories in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the uses of these constructions by European writers and Indian nationalist elites. The case of the Rajputs demonstrates how imperial histories reflected Indian social processes and pre-colonial forms of knowledge, interpreted India for the world outside and for Indians themselves. This book explores the multiple discourses within Tod’s Rajasthan, and European Orientalism, to show how intricately coded the British Empire was and, historically, remains.
Serving Empire, Serving Nation
Title | Serving Empire, Serving Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Jason Freitag |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9004175946 |
James Tod s Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan was crucial in forming the modern image of the R jp t, a princely martial caste resident in India s northwest desert. This book explores the relationships between the political power of the British imperial state, the construction of historical memories in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the uses of these constructions by European writers and Indian nationalist elites. The case of the Rajputs demonstrates how imperial histories reflected Indian social processes and pre-colonial forms of knowledge, interpreted India for the world outside and for Indians themselves. This book explores the multiple discourses within Tod s Rajasthan, and European Orientalism, to show how intricately coded the British Empire was and, historically, remains.
National Petroleum News
Title | National Petroleum News PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1318 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Petroleum |
ISBN |
Knowledge, mediation and empire
Title | Knowledge, mediation and empire PDF eBook |
Author | Florence D'Souza |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 383 |
Release | 2015-07-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1784992089 |
This study of the British colonial administrator James Tod (1782–1835), who spent five years in north-western India (1818–22) collecting every conceivable type of material of historical or cultural interest on the Rajputs and the Gujaratis, gives special attention to his role as a mediator of knowledge about this little-known region of the British Empire in the early nineteenth century to British and European audiences. The book aims to illustrate that British officers did not spend all their time oppressing and inferiorising the indigenous peoples under their colonial authority, but also contributed to propagating cultural and scientific information about them, and that they did not react only negatively to the various types of human difference they encountered in the field.
On Ruins of Empire
Title | On Ruins of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | George Mirsky |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 1997-01-21 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0313029725 |
This study, sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation and the London School of Economics and Political Science, analyzes the ethnopolitical situation in Russia and the other republics of the former Soviet Union, particularly the southern tier states. Respected Russian scholar Georgiy Mirsky provides an insider's look at the historical nature of the Russian and Soviet empires, the development of ethnic and nationalistic identities within those empires, and the present-day situation with regard to hot and cold ethnic conflicts within and around Russia. This important work will be of interest to scholars and policymakers in comparative politics, international relations, and Russian and Slavic studies.
Kingdom and Empire
Title | Kingdom and Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Gene Tempelmeyer |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 91 |
Release | 2021-09-02 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1666716308 |
We love ragtag rebels who defeat the empire in films we watch and books we read. But living in centers of the world's wealth and power, do we recognize that we are participants in today's version of empire? Most of the Bible is written for and by people under threat or under the thumb of a variety of empires. The question faced by the children of Israel and the early followers of Jesus was how to live for the kingdom of God while powerful empires demanded full obedience. Does living with affluence and influence change the way we read and understand that story? Are we likely to miss the way the Bible critiques our use of wealth, weapons, and walls? What do Abraham, Moses, and Daniel teach us about living in the heart of the empire and reaching for something better? What can Paul teach us about using the resources of the empire to spread the message that Jesus is Lord, not Caesar? What do the birth and death of Jesus teach us about how God is redeeming the world of empires? Is our citizenship in the empire a temptation, or an opportunity?
Nature, Empire, and Nation
Title | Nature, Empire, and Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780804755443 |
This collection of essays explores two traditions of interpreting and manipulating nature in the early-modern and nineteenth-century Iberian world: one instrumental and imperial, the other patriotic and national. Imperial representations laid the ground for the epistemological transformations of the so-called Scientific Revolutions. The patriotic narratives lie at the core of the first modern representations of the racialized body, Humboldtian theories of biodistribution, and views of the landscape as a historical text representing different layers of historical memory.