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

Showcases 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. The author examines how such technologies became integral to fresh ways of thinking about class, race, and gender, as well as about the politics of colonial rule. Zusammenfassung Showcases 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. The author examines how such technologies became integral to fresh ways of thinking about class! race! and gender! as well as about the politics of colonial rule.

Product details

• Authors: David Arnold, David (School of Oriental and African Stud Arnold, David (School of Oriental and African Studies Arnold
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.03.2015
• EAN: 9780226269375
• ISBN: 978-0-226-26937-5
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: science.culture; science.culture; science.culture (CHUP)
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 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