Marriott The other empire

Metropolis, India and progress in the colonial imagination
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-84779-539-7
Verlag: LSU Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 50, 256 Seiten, EPUB

Reihe: Studies in Imperialism

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. 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 on the creation of London and India for the domestic reading public. Their distinct narratives, rhetoric and chronologies forged homologies between representations of the metropolitan poor and colonial subjects – those constituencies that were seen as the most threatening to imperial progress. Thus the poor and particular sections of the Indian population were inscribed within discourses of western civilization as regressive and inferior peoples. Over time these discourses increasingly promoted notions of overt and rigid racial hierarchies, of which a legacy still remains. Drawing upon cultural and intellectual history this comparative study seeks to rethink the location of the poor and India within the nineteenth-century imagination.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marriott, John

Weitere Mitwirkende

Thompson, Andrew

MacKenzie, John M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

MacKenzie, John M.
John MacKenzie is Emeritus Professor of Imperial History, Lancaster University and holds Honorary Professorships at Aberdeen, St Andrews and Stirling, as well as an Honorary Fellowship at Edinburgh.

Marriott, John
John Marriott is Reader in History at the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, University of East London, and Director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre.

John Marriott is Reader in History at the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, University of East London, and Director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre