From the Black Sea Through Persia and India
Title | From the Black Sea Through Persia and India PDF eBook |
Author | Edwin Lord Weeks |
Publisher | |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 1896 |
Genre | India |
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A travel memoir in diary-style. The author explains in the preface that he did not intend to take the route described here, but civil war in Afghanistan and a cholera epidemic forced him to travel through Kurdistan and Persia. Some hand-drawn illustrations provide images of the author's journey. Special chapters at the end include the author's commentary on Hinduism and Islam in India, Indian art, and impressions of everyday life for English people in India.
India in the American Imaginary, 1780s–1880s
Title | India in the American Imaginary, 1780s–1880s PDF eBook |
Author | Anupama Arora |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2017-11-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3319623346 |
This book seeks to frame the “the idea of India” in the American imaginary within a transnational lens that is attentive to global flows of goods, people, and ideas within the circuits of imperial and maritime economies in nineteenth century America (roughly 1780s-1880s). This diverse and interdisciplinary volume – with essays by upcoming as well as established scholars – aims to add to an understanding of the fast changing terrain of economic, political, and cultural life in the US as it emerged from being a British colony to having imperial ambitions of its own on the global stage. The essays trace, variously, the evolution of the changing self-image of a nation embodying a surprisingly cosmopolitan sensibility, open to different cultural values and customs in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century to one that slowly adopted rigid and discriminatory racial and cultural attitudes spawned by the widespread missionary activities of the ABCFM and the fierce economic pulls and pushes of American mercantilism by the end of the nineteenth century. The different uses of India become a way of refining an American national identity.
American Travellers Abroad
Title | American Travellers Abroad PDF eBook |
Author | Harold Frederick Smith |
Publisher | Scarecrow Press |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780810835542 |
Demonstrates that US travelers abroad were not limited to the rich and privileged even in previous centuries, by presenting over 2,000 titles with full bibliographic citations and brief evaluative descriptions. Arranged alphabetically by author and indexed by place and author's occupation. Updated from the 1969 edition with titles subsequently discovered. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Charisma and Commitment in South Asian History
Title | Charisma and Commitment in South Asian History PDF eBook |
Author | Roger D. Long |
Publisher | Orient Blackswan |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | India |
ISBN | 9788125026419 |
This collection includes an appreciation of Wolpert s life and writings, and three of his previously unpublished essays. In addition it considers such subjects as premodern cities in South Asia, the Bene Israel in the Konkan, propaganda and the Raj in World War II, and linguistic nationalism and regional identity in Orissa.
Catalogue of Books Exclusive of Prose Fiction in the Central Lending Library
Title | Catalogue of Books Exclusive of Prose Fiction in the Central Lending Library PDF eBook |
Author | Leeds (England). Public Libraries, Art Gallery and Museum |
Publisher | |
Pages | 578 |
Release | 1907 |
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HGAF Fine Art Dallas Auction Catalog #652
Title | HGAF Fine Art Dallas Auction Catalog #652 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Heritage Capital Corporation |
Pages | 364 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781599671420 |
Bulletin of the Osterhout Free Library
Title | Bulletin of the Osterhout Free Library PDF eBook |
Author | Osterhout Free Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal) |
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