The Tropics And the Traveling Gaze
Title | The Tropics And the Traveling Gaze PDF eBook |
Author | David Arnold |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780295985817 |
Offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the tropical world. Arnold considers the ways in which India’s material environment became increasingly subject to the colonial understanding of landscape and nature, and to the scientific scrutiny of itinerant naturalists.
The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze
Title | The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze PDF eBook |
Author | David John Arnold |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2015-07-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0295800941 |
Offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the tropical world. Arnold considers the ways in which India’s material environment became increasingly subject to the colonial understanding of landscape and nature, and to the scientific scrutiny of itinerant naturalists.
The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Clarke |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2018-01-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107153395 |
This Companion addresses an exciting emerging field of literary scholarship that charts the intersections of postcolonial studies and travel writing.
Modern Maternities
Title | Modern Maternities PDF eBook |
Author | Ranjana Saha |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2023-07-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 100090539X |
1) This is one of the first systematic historical account of Medical Advice about Breastfeeding in Colonial Calcutta. 2) It has rich archival sources like rare medical handbooks and periodicals, governmental proceedings, child welfare exhibition and conference reports, personal papers, memoirs, illustrations and advertisements. 3) This book will be of interest to departments of social history and colonial history across UK.
Acts of Aid
Title | Acts of Aid PDF eBook |
Author | Eleonor Marcussen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 2023-01-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 110883809X |
This history of an Indian earthquake aftermath analyses the role of civil society, the colonial state and international aid in disaster relief.
Inscriptions of Nature
Title | Inscriptions of Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Pratik Chakrabarti |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 279 |
Release | 2020-10-13 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1421438755 |
Learn how the deep history of nature became a dominant paradigm of historical thinking, through a study of landscapes of India. Winner of the BSHS Pickstone Prize by the British Society for the History of Science, Shortlisted for the Pfizer Award for an Outstanding Book in the History of Science by the History of Science Society In the nineteenth century, teams of men began digging the earth like never before. Sometimes this digging—often for sewage, transport, or minerals—revealed human remains. Other times, archaeological excavation of ancient cities unearthed prehistoric fossils, while excavations for irrigation canals revealed buried cities. Concurrently, geologists, ethnologists, archaeologists, and missionaries were also digging into ancient texts and genealogies and delving into the lives and bodies of indigenous populations, their myths, legends, and pasts. One pursuit was intertwined with another in this encounter with the earth and its inhabitants—past, present, and future. In Inscriptions of Nature, Pratik Chakrabarti argues that, in both the real and the metaphorical digging of the earth, the deep history of nature, landscape, and people became indelibly inscribed in the study and imagination of antiquity. The first book to situate deep history as an expression of political, economic, and cultural power, this volume shows that it is complicit in the European and colonial appropriation of global nature, commodities, temporalities, and myths. The book also provides a new interpretation of the relationship between nature and history. Arguing that the deep history of the earth became pervasive within historical imaginations of monuments, communities, and territories in the nineteenth century, Chakrabarti studies these processes in the Indian subcontinent, from the banks of the Yamuna and Ganga rivers to the Himalayas to the deep ravines and forests of central India. He also examines associated themes of Hindu antiquarianism, sacred geographies, and tribal aboriginality. Based on extensive archival research, the book provides insights into state formation, mining of natural resources, and the creation of national topographies. Driven by the geological imagination of India as well as its landscape, people, past, and destiny, Inscriptions of Nature reveals how human evolution, myths, aboriginality, and colonial state formation fundamentally defined Indian antiquity.
Surveying the American Tropics
Title | Surveying the American Tropics PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Cristina Fumagalli |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 377 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1846318904 |
A collection of essays from distinguished international scholars that explore the idea of a literary geography of the American Tropics.