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Terrestrial lessons : the conquest of the world as globe /
Terrestrial Lessons is an unconventional history of a commonplace object we moderns have likely encountered at some point of time in our lives, especially as school-going children. For the last half millennium, the terrestrial globe has circulated as a master object of scientific modernity, a knowle...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Terrestrial Lessons is an unconventional history of a commonplace object we moderns have likely encountered at some point of time in our lives, especially as school-going children. For the last half millennium, the terrestrial globe has circulated as a master object of scientific modernity, a knowledge of whose shape and contours has been deemed critical to our status as educated and enlightened inhabitants of our world. Today, it is a ubiquitous symbol of our "global" times, its familiar visage seemingly everywhere. Some have even argued that the image of the "global" Earth is the nearest thing to a universal icon. Yet such an understanding of our Earth as an iconic spinning globe is in fact hard-won, and is by no means free of dissonance or contradictions. Traversing the length and breadth of British India, Terrestrial Lessons follows the itineraries of this master object as it is transformed from a thing of distinction into that mass-produced commodity, the humble school globe. Adopting a thing-centered methodology that connects narratives and concepts to a series of "global encounters" between object and subject, the book demonstrates how a modern planetary consciousness was cultivated in schools across India and was foundational to colonial pedagogy. The terrestrial lessons conducted with the help of the modest school globe also constituted the earliest form of science education in the subcontinent. As such, this is the first in-depth study of the terrestrial globe as it leaves the shores of Europe to travel to and circulate in the Indian subcontinent.-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226476742 022647674X |