Author: James Outram
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Lieut.-General Sir James Outram's Campaign in India, 1857-1858
Author: James Outram
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Felice Beato
Author: Anne Lacoste
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 160606035X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The fascinating life and work of an artist who captured some of the first photographs of the Far East are presented in this gorgeous volume.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 160606035X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The fascinating life and work of an artist who captured some of the first photographs of the Far East are presented in this gorgeous volume.
A Memoir of Lieutenant-General Sir Garnet J. Wolseley ...
Author: Charles Rathbone Low
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ashanti War, 1873-1874
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ashanti War, 1873-1874
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Black Hole of Empire
Author: Partha Chatterjee
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691152012
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
When Siraj, the ruler of Bengal, overran the British settlement of Calcutta in 1756, he allegedly jailed 146 European prisoners overnight in a cramped prison. Of the group, 123 died of suffocation. While this episode was never independently confirmed, the story of "the black hole of Calcutta" was widely circulated and seen by the British public as an atrocity committed by savage colonial subjects. The Black Hole of Empire follows the ever-changing representations of this historical event and founding myth of the British Empire in India, from the eighteenth century to the present. Partha Chatterjee explores how a supposed tragedy paved the ideological foundations for the "civilizing" force of British imperial rule and territorial control in India. Chatterjee takes a close look at the justifications of modern empire by liberal thinkers, international lawyers, and conservative traditionalists, and examines the intellectual and political responses of the colonized, including those of Bengali nationalists. The two sides of empire's entwined history are brought together in the story of the Black Hole memorial: set up in Calcutta in 1760, demolished in 1821, restored by Lord Curzon in 1902, and removed in 1940 to a neglected churchyard. Challenging conventional truisms of imperial history, nationalist scholarship, and liberal visions of globalization, Chatterjee argues that empire is a necessary and continuing part of the history of the modern state.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691152012
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
When Siraj, the ruler of Bengal, overran the British settlement of Calcutta in 1756, he allegedly jailed 146 European prisoners overnight in a cramped prison. Of the group, 123 died of suffocation. While this episode was never independently confirmed, the story of "the black hole of Calcutta" was widely circulated and seen by the British public as an atrocity committed by savage colonial subjects. The Black Hole of Empire follows the ever-changing representations of this historical event and founding myth of the British Empire in India, from the eighteenth century to the present. Partha Chatterjee explores how a supposed tragedy paved the ideological foundations for the "civilizing" force of British imperial rule and territorial control in India. Chatterjee takes a close look at the justifications of modern empire by liberal thinkers, international lawyers, and conservative traditionalists, and examines the intellectual and political responses of the colonized, including those of Bengali nationalists. The two sides of empire's entwined history are brought together in the story of the Black Hole memorial: set up in Calcutta in 1760, demolished in 1821, restored by Lord Curzon in 1902, and removed in 1940 to a neglected churchyard. Challenging conventional truisms of imperial history, nationalist scholarship, and liberal visions of globalization, Chatterjee argues that empire is a necessary and continuing part of the history of the modern state.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama
Author: E. Cobham Brewer
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734093228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama by E. Cobham Brewer
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734093228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama by E. Cobham Brewer
Life of Sir Henry Lawrence
Author: Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A Body Worth Defending
Author: Ed Cohen
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822391112
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Biological immunity as we know it does not exist until the late nineteenth century. Nor does the premise that organisms defend themselves at the cellular or molecular levels. For nearly two thousand years “immunity,” a legal concept invented in ancient Rome, serves almost exclusively political and juridical ends. “Self-defense” also originates in a juridico-political context; it emerges in the mid-seventeenth century, during the English Civil War, when Thomas Hobbes defines it as the first “natural right.” In the 1880s and 1890s, biomedicine fuses these two political precepts into one, creating a new vital function, “immunity-as-defense.” In A Body Worth Defending, Ed Cohen reveals the unacknowledged political, economic, and philosophical assumptions about the human body that biomedicine incorporates when it recruits immunity to safeguard the vulnerable living organism. Inspired by Michel Foucault’s writings about biopolitics and biopower, Cohen traces the migration of immunity from politics and law into the domains of medicine and science. Offering a genealogy of the concept, he illuminates a complex of thinking about modern bodies that percolates through European political, legal, philosophical, economic, governmental, scientific, and medical discourses from the mid-seventeenth century through the twentieth. He shows that by the late nineteenth century, “the body” literally incarnates modern notions of personhood. In this lively cultural rumination, Cohen argues that by embracing the idea of immunity-as-defense so exclusively, biomedicine naturalizes the individual as the privileged focus for identifying and treating illness, thereby devaluing or obscuring approaches to healing situated within communities or collectives.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822391112
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Biological immunity as we know it does not exist until the late nineteenth century. Nor does the premise that organisms defend themselves at the cellular or molecular levels. For nearly two thousand years “immunity,” a legal concept invented in ancient Rome, serves almost exclusively political and juridical ends. “Self-defense” also originates in a juridico-political context; it emerges in the mid-seventeenth century, during the English Civil War, when Thomas Hobbes defines it as the first “natural right.” In the 1880s and 1890s, biomedicine fuses these two political precepts into one, creating a new vital function, “immunity-as-defense.” In A Body Worth Defending, Ed Cohen reveals the unacknowledged political, economic, and philosophical assumptions about the human body that biomedicine incorporates when it recruits immunity to safeguard the vulnerable living organism. Inspired by Michel Foucault’s writings about biopolitics and biopower, Cohen traces the migration of immunity from politics and law into the domains of medicine and science. Offering a genealogy of the concept, he illuminates a complex of thinking about modern bodies that percolates through European political, legal, philosophical, economic, governmental, scientific, and medical discourses from the mid-seventeenth century through the twentieth. He shows that by the late nineteenth century, “the body” literally incarnates modern notions of personhood. In this lively cultural rumination, Cohen argues that by embracing the idea of immunity-as-defense so exclusively, biomedicine naturalizes the individual as the privileged focus for identifying and treating illness, thereby devaluing or obscuring approaches to healing situated within communities or collectives.
Lieut.-General Sir James Outram's Campaign in 1857-1858
Author: Sir James Outram
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783337700744
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783337700744
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
Author: I. Giberne Sieveking
Publisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789356894785
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from scanned copies.
Publisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789356894785
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from scanned copies.
Lucknow & Oude in the Mutiny
Author: McLeod Innes
Publisher: London : A.D. Innes
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher: London : A.D. Innes
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description