The other empire : : metropolis, India, and progress in the colonial imagination /

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The other empire : : metropolis, India, and progress in the colonial imagination / / John Marriott.

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This is a detailed study of the various ways in which London and India were imaginatively constructed by British observers during the nineteenth century. This process took place within a unified field of knowledge that brought together travel and evangelical accounts to exert a formative influence o...

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Superior document:Studies in imperialism
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Marriott, John, 1944-
Year of Publication:2003
Edition:MSI edition.
Language:English
Series:Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
Notes:
  • Description based upon print version of record.
  • First published: 2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: metropolis and India
  • 1. The antinomies of progress
  • 2. Desarts of Africa or Arabia
  • 3. The intimate connexion
  • 4 A complete cyclopaedia
  • 5. So immense an empire
  • 6. In darkest England
  • 7. The great museum of races
  • Conclusion
  • Index.

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