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Empire Building
- The Construction of British India, 1690–1860
Engelsk Hardback
Empire Building
- The Construction of British India, 1690–1860
Engelsk Hardback

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''Empire Building'' is a new account of the East India Company''s impact on India, focussing on how it changed the sub-continent''s built environment in the context of defence, urbanisation, and infrastructural development. Rosie Llewellyn-Jones examines these initiatives through a lens of ''political building'' (using Indian contractors and labourers). Railways, docks, municipal buildings, freemasons'' lodges, hotels, race-courses, barracks, cemeteries, statues, canals--everything the British erected made a political statement, even if unconsciously; hence this book is concerned less with architectural styles, more with subtle infiltration into the minds of those who saw and used these structures. It assesses, in turn, Indian responses to the changing landscape. Indians often reacted favourably to new manufacturing technologies from Britain, like minting and gunpowder, while the British learnt from and adapted local methods. From military engineers and cartography to imported raw metals and steam power, Llewellyn-Jones considers the social and environmental changes wrought by colonialism. This period was marked by a shift from formerly private, Indian-controlled functions, like education, entertainment, trading and healing, to British public institutions like universities, theatres, chambers of commerce and hospitals.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
352
ISBN-13:
9781787388048
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1787388042
Udg. Dato:
19 jan 2023
Længde:
29mm
Bredde:
242mm
Højde:
166mm
Forlag:
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Oplagsdato:
19 jan 2023
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