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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
John Wiley & Sons,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.