Metallic Modern : : Everyday Machines in Colonial Sri Lanka / / Nira Wickramasinghe.

Everyday life in the Crown colony of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) was characterized by a direct encounter of people with modernity through the consumption and use of foreign machines – in particular, the Singer sewing machine, but also the gramophone, tramway, bicycle and varieties of industrial equipment. Th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
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