Everyday Technology - Machines and the Making of India's Modernity

Informationen zum Autor David Arnold is professor emeritus of Asian and global history in the Department of History at the University of Warwick. Among his numerous works are Science! Technology! and Medicine in Colonial India; Gandhi; and The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India! Landscape! and Science! 1800-1856. Klappentext An account of how small machines and consumer goods that originated in Europe and North America became objects of everyday use in India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines the assimilation and appropriation of bicycles! rice mills! sewing machines! and typewriters in India. Zusammenfassung An account of how small machines and consumer goods that originated in Europe and North America became objects of everyday use in India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines the assimilation and appropriation of bicycles! rice mills! sewing machines! and typewriters in India.

Product details

• Authors: David Arnold, David (School of Oriental and African Studies Arnold, Arnold David
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.07.2013
• EAN: 9780226922027
• ISBN: 978-0-226-92202-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 226 mm x 23 mm
• Series: science.culture; science.culture; science.culture (CHUP)
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, India, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of engineering and technology, Asian History, History of engineering & technology, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Industrialisation and industrial history, HISTORY / Asia / South / India