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Book Synopsis Mapping an Empire by : Matthew H. Edney
Download or read book Mapping an Empire written by Matthew H. Edney and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating history of the British surveys of India, Matthew H. Edney relates how imperial Britain used modern survey techniques to not only create and define the spatial image of its Empire, but also to legitimate its colonialist activities. "There is much to be praised in this book. It is an excellent history of how India came to be painted red in the nineteenth century. But more importantly, Mapping an Empire sets a new standard for books that examine a fundamental problem in the history of European imperialism."—D. Graham Burnett, Times Literary Supplement "Mapping an Empire is undoubtedly a major contribution to the rapidly growing literature on science and empire, and a work which deserves to stimulate a great deal of fresh thinking and informed research."—David Arnold, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History "This case study offers broadly applicable insights into the relationship between ideology, technology and politics. . . . Carefully read, this is a tale of irony about wishful thinking and the limits of knowledge."—Publishers Weekly
Book Synopsis Land of seven rivers by : Sanjeev Sanyal
Download or read book Land of seven rivers written by Sanjeev Sanyal and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DID THE GREAT FLOOD OF INDIAN LEGEND ACTUALLY HAPPEN? WHY DID THE BUDDHA WALK TO SARNATH TO GIVE HIS FIRST SERMON? HOW DID THE EUROPEANS MAP INDIA? The history of any country begins with its geography. With sparkling wit and intelligence, Sanjeev Sanyal sets off to explore India and look at how the country’s history was shaped by, among other things, its rivers, mountains and cities. Traversing remote mountain passes, visiting ancient archaeological sites, crossing rivers in shaky boats and immersing himself in old records and manuscripts, he considers questions about Indian history that we rarely ask: Why do Indians call their country Bharat? How did the British build the railways across the subcontinent? Why was the world’s highest mountain named after George Everest? Moving from the geological beginnings of the subcontinent to present-day Gurgaon, Land of the Seven Rivers is riveting, wry and full of surprises. It is the most entertaining history of India you will ever read.
Book Synopsis Historical Geography of the British India by : Paul Ernest Roberts
Download or read book Historical Geography of the British India written by Paul Ernest Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Historical Geography of the British Colonies. Vol. 7, India by : John Davenport Rogers
Download or read book A Historical Geography of the British Colonies. Vol. 7, India written by John Davenport Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Incredible History of India's Geography by : Sanjeev Sanyal
Download or read book The Incredible History of India's Geography written by Sanjeev Sanyal and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could you be related to a blonde Lithuanian? Did you know that India is the only country that has both lions and tigers? Who found out how tall Mt Everest is? If you've ever wanted to know the answers to questions like these, this is the book for you. In here you will find various things you never expected, such as the fact that we still greet each other like the Harappans did and that people used to think India was full of one-eyed giants. And, sneakily, you'll also know more about India's history and geography by the end of it. Full of quirky pictures and crazy trivia, this book takes you on a fantastic journey through the incredible history of India's geography.
Book Synopsis A Historical Geography of the British Colonies by : Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas
Download or read book A Historical Geography of the British Colonies written by Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Historical Geography of the British Empire by : Hereford Brooke George
Download or read book A Historical Geography of the British Empire written by Hereford Brooke George and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Historical Geography of the British Colonies: South and East Africa by : Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas
Download or read book A Historical Geography of the British Colonies: South and East Africa written by Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography by : Mona Domosh
Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography written by Mona Domosh and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 1619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical geography is an active, theoretically-informed and vibrant field of scholarly work within modern geography, with strong and constantly evolving connections with disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. Across two volumes, The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography provides you with an an international and cross-disciplinary overview of the field, presenting chapters that examine the history, present condition and future potential of the discipline in relation to recent developments and research.
Book Synopsis Geography and Imperialism, 1820-1940 by : Morag Bell
Download or read book Geography and Imperialism, 1820-1940 written by Morag Bell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how European imperialism was facilitated and challenged from 1820 to 1920. With reference to geographical science, the authors add to multi-disciplinary debates on the complex cultural, ideological and intellectual bases of European imper
Book Synopsis A Historical Geography of the British Colonies: India (2 pts.) by : Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas
Download or read book A Historical Geography of the British Colonies: India (2 pts.) written by Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Aryans and British India by : Thomas R. Trautmann
Download or read book Aryans and British India written by Thomas R. Trautmann and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Aryan," a word that today evokes images of racial hatred and atrocity, was first used by Europeans to suggest bonds of kinship, as Thomas Trautmann shows in his far-reaching history of British Orientalism and the ethnology of India. When the historical relationship uniting Sanskrit with the languages of Europe was discovered, it seemed clear that Indians and Britons belonged to the same family. Thus the Indo-European or Aryan idea, based on the principle of linguistic kinship, dominated British ethnological inquiry. In the nineteenth century, however, an emergent biological "race science" attacked the authority of the Orientalists. The spectacle of a dark-skinned people who were evidently civilized challenged Victorian ideas, and race science responded to the enigma of India by redefining the Aryan concept in narrowly "white" racial terms. By the end of the nineteenth century, race science and Orientalism reached a deep and lasting consensus in regard to India, which Trautmann calls "the racial theory of Indian civilization," and which he undermines with his powerful analysis of colonial ethnology in India. His work of reassessing British Orientalism and the Aryan idea will be of great interest to historians, anthropologists, and cultural critics.
Book Synopsis The Frontier in British India by : Thomas Simpson
Download or read book The Frontier in British India written by Thomas Simpson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative account of how distinctive forms of colonial power and knowledge developed at the territorial fringes of British India. Thomas Simpson considers the role of frontier officials as surveyors, cartographers and ethnographers, military violence in frontier regions and the impact of the frontier experience on colonial administration.
Book Synopsis A Historical Geography of the British Colonies: West Africa. 2d ed., rev. to end of 1899 by : Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas
Download or read book A Historical Geography of the British Colonies: West Africa. 2d ed., rev. to end of 1899 written by Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Colonial and Post-Colonial Geographies of India by : Saraswati Raju
Download or read book Colonial and Post-Colonial Geographies of India written by Saraswati Raju and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-03-29 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays by scholars of geography from India, Western Europe, and the USA provides important insights into the way contemporary geographers are engaging with India. The earlier narrow colonial focus that saw India as a country of resources and "peoples" (tribes and castes) has now been discarded for a broader view located in mainstream intellectual frameworks and informed by a public policy perspective. This volume highlights how contemporary geographers see and write on topics such as the state, nation, community, environment, and division of labor, while keeping in mind issues of spatiality and territoriality.
Book Synopsis Britain's Oceanic Empire by : H. V. Bowen
Download or read book Britain's Oceanic Empire written by H. V. Bowen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative study of how the British managed the expansion of empire in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.
Download or read book Indian Ink written by Miles Ogborn and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A commercial company established in 1600 to monopolize trade between England and the Far East, the East India Company grew to govern an Indian empire. Exploring the relationship between power and knowledge in European engagement with Asia, Indian Ink examines the Company at work and reveals how writing and print shaped authority on a global scale in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Tracing the history of the Company from its first tentative trading voyages in the early seventeenth century to the foundation of an empire in Bengal in the late eighteenth century, Miles Ogborn takes readers into the scriptoria, ships, offices, print shops, coffeehouses, and palaces to investigate the forms of writing needed to exert power and extract profit in the mercantile and imperial worlds. Interpreting the making and use of a variety of forms of writing in script and print, Ogborn argues that material and political circumstances always undermined attempts at domination through the power of the written word. Navigating the juncture of imperial history and the history of the book, Indian Ink uncovers the intellectual and political legacies of early modern trade and empire and charts a new understanding of the geography of print culture.
