Interiors of Empire - Objects, Space Identity Within Indian Subcontinent, C. 1800 1947

Informationen zum Autor Further information on Robin Jones Blog website https://alsowritten.wordpress.com Klappentext This book examines the cultural impact of colonialism on both colonizer and colonized via analysis of the domestic interiors and public spaces of empire within the Indian Subcontinent, contrasting representations of such spaces within contemporary discourse with analysis of the evidence of actual interiors and the social practices there engendered. Zusammenfassung This book examines the cultural impact of colonialism on both colonizer and colonized via analysis of the domestic interiors and public spaces of empire within the Indian Subcontinent! contrasting representations of such spaces within contemporary discourse with analysis of the evidence of actual interiors and the social practices there engendered. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figuresAcknowledgementsGlossaryIntroduction1. Locating the East Indian home: settlement, forms of housing and the local environment2. Objects, memory and identity: the Anglo-Indian domestic sphere3. 'Furnished in English style': globalization of local elite domestic interiors4. Domesticating authority in the public spaces of empire Conclusion Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Robin Jones, Robin D. Jones
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2007
• EAN: 9780719069420
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-6942-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture; Studies in Design (Hardcover); Studies in Design and Material Culture; Studies in Design (Hardcover)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Anthropologie, Architektur: Innenarchitektur, Indischer Subkontinent