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Empire Building

- The Construction of British India, 1690–1860
Af: Rosie Llewellyn-Jones Engelsk Hardback

Empire Building

- The Construction of British India, 1690–1860
Af: Rosie Llewellyn-Jones 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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''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
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ISBN-10: 1787388042
Kategori: Kolonialisme og imperialisme
Udg. Dato: 19 jan 2023
Længde: 29mm
Bredde: 242mm
Højde: 166mm
Forlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Oplagsdato: 19 jan 2023
Forfatter(e): Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
Forfatter(e) Rosie Llewellyn-Jones

Kategori Kolonialisme og imperialisme

ISBN-13 9781787388048

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 352

Udgave

Længde 29mm

Bredde 242mm

Højde 166mm

Udg. Dato 19 jan 2023

Oplagsdato 19 jan 2023

Forlag C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd