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Colonial voices : the discourses of empire /

This accessible cultural history explores 400 years of British imperial adventure in India, developing a coherent narrative through a wide range of colonial documents, from exhibition catalogues to memoirs and travelogues. It shows how these texts helped legitimize the moral ambiguities of colonial...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nayar, Pramod K.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introducing Colonial Discourse; Chapter 2: Travel, Exploration, and "Discovery"; Imagining Multiple Worlds: The Fantasy of "Discovery"; The Narrative Organization of Discovery; "Inquiry" and the Documentation of the Others; Conclusion: "Discovery" and Wonder, "Contracted and Epitomized"; Chapter 3: The Discourse of Difference; The Colony and Imperial Wealth; The Exotic in English Culture; The Colonial Exotic: Aesthetics, Science, and Difference; The Sentimental Exotic; The Scientific Exotic. 
505 8 |a Conclusion: From the Indian to the Colonial Exotic; Chapter 4: Empire Management; The Domestication of Colonial Spaces; Administering Colonial Spaces; "Raising the General Credit of the Empire": The Spectacle of Empire; Conclusion: Imperial Improvisation and the Spectacle; Chapter 5: Civilizing the Empire; England's Age of Improvement; Discipline and Improve; Imperial Lessons; The Salvific Colonial; Rescue, Reform, and Race; Conclusion: From Improvement to Self-Legitimization; Chapter 6: Aesthetic Understanding; The Self-Fashioning of the Scholar-Colonial. 
505 8 |a Antiquarian Aesthetics and Colonial Authority"Consumption, Ingestion, and Decoration": Colonial Commodities; The "Empire City": Pageantry and Empire; Conclusion: From Colonial English to Imperial Cosmopolitan; References; Index. 
520 |a This accessible cultural history explores 400 years of British imperial adventure in India, developing a coherent narrative through a wide range of colonial documents, from exhibition catalogues to memoirs and travelogues. It shows how these texts helped legitimize the moral ambiguities of colonial rule even as they helped the English fashion themselves. An engaging examination of European colonizers' representations of native populations. Analyzes colonial discourse through an impressive range of primary sources, including memoirs, letters, exhibition catalogues, administrative reports, an. 
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