The other empire metropolis, India, and progress in the colonial imagination
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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester, UK ; New York :
Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
2003.
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| Edición: | MSI edition |
| Colección: | Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009427405006719 |
| Sumario: | 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, the legacy of which remains to this day. |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. First published: 2003. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (256 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) Also available in print form |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781847795397 9781526137838 9781781700341 9781280734052 9786610734054 9781847790613 9781423706335 |
