Author: David Gore
Publisher: David Gore
ISBN: 9780953091232
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Soldiers, Saints and Scallywags
Author: David Gore
Publisher: David Gore
ISBN: 9780953091232
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher: David Gore
ISBN: 9780953091232
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Spatial Imaginings in the Age of Colonial Cartographic Reason
Author: Nilanjana Mukherjee
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000193292
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This volume explores how India as a geographical space was constructed by the British colonial regime in visual and material terms. It demonstrates the instrumentalisation of cultural artefacts such as landscape paintings, travel literature and cartography, as spatial practices overtly carrying scientific truth claims, to materially produce artificial spaces that reinforced power relations. It sheds light on the primary dominance of cartographic reason in the age of European Enlightenment which framed aesthetic and scientific modes of representation and imagination. The author cross-examines this imperial gaze as a visual perspective which bore the material inscriptions of a will to assert, possess and control. The distinguishing theme in this study is the production of India as a new geography sourced from Britain's own interaction with its rural outskirts and domination in its fringes. This book: Addresses the concept of "production of space" to study the formulation of a colonial geography which resulted in the birth of a new place, later a nation; Investigates a generative period in the formation of British India c. 1750–1850 as a colonial territory vis-à-vis its representation and reiteration in British maps, landscape paintings and travel writings; Brings Great Britain and British India together on one plane not only in terms of the physical geo-spaces but also in the excavation of critical domains by alluding to critics from both spaces; Seeks to understand the pictorial grammar that legitimised the expansive British imperial cartographic gaze as the dominant narrative which marginalised all other existing local ideas of space and inhabitation. Rethinking colonial constructions of modern India, this volume will be of immense interest to scholars and researchers of modern history, cultural geography, colonial studies, English literature, cultural studies, art, visual studies and area studies.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000193292
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This volume explores how India as a geographical space was constructed by the British colonial regime in visual and material terms. It demonstrates the instrumentalisation of cultural artefacts such as landscape paintings, travel literature and cartography, as spatial practices overtly carrying scientific truth claims, to materially produce artificial spaces that reinforced power relations. It sheds light on the primary dominance of cartographic reason in the age of European Enlightenment which framed aesthetic and scientific modes of representation and imagination. The author cross-examines this imperial gaze as a visual perspective which bore the material inscriptions of a will to assert, possess and control. The distinguishing theme in this study is the production of India as a new geography sourced from Britain's own interaction with its rural outskirts and domination in its fringes. This book: Addresses the concept of "production of space" to study the formulation of a colonial geography which resulted in the birth of a new place, later a nation; Investigates a generative period in the formation of British India c. 1750–1850 as a colonial territory vis-à-vis its representation and reiteration in British maps, landscape paintings and travel writings; Brings Great Britain and British India together on one plane not only in terms of the physical geo-spaces but also in the excavation of critical domains by alluding to critics from both spaces; Seeks to understand the pictorial grammar that legitimised the expansive British imperial cartographic gaze as the dominant narrative which marginalised all other existing local ideas of space and inhabitation. Rethinking colonial constructions of modern India, this volume will be of immense interest to scholars and researchers of modern history, cultural geography, colonial studies, English literature, cultural studies, art, visual studies and area studies.
Scallywags of Sydney Cove
Author: Frank Clune
Publisher: Angus & Robertson
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Includes George Barrington; Margaret Catchpole; William Edwards; Sir Henry Browne Hayes; Joseph Holt; Jorgen Jorgensen; Alexander Loo Kaye; Major Semple Lisle; Simeon Lord; James Hardy Vaux.
Publisher: Angus & Robertson
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Includes George Barrington; Margaret Catchpole; William Edwards; Sir Henry Browne Hayes; Joseph Holt; Jorgen Jorgensen; Alexander Loo Kaye; Major Semple Lisle; Simeon Lord; James Hardy Vaux.
Blamey, Controversial Soldier
Author: John Hetherington
Publisher:
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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A Plaster Saint
Author: Annie Edwards
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The Oxford Book of Royal Anecdotes
Author: Elizabeth Longford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Elizabeth Longford has edited an anthology of reported stories and writings about each British monarch from Boudicca to Elizabeth II. In addition there are lists of sayings by the most recent monarchs. This book is intended as an insight into the personalities, characteristics and idiosyncrasies of England's Kings and Queens and offers much more than just a chronology of dates.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Elizabeth Longford has edited an anthology of reported stories and writings about each British monarch from Boudicca to Elizabeth II. In addition there are lists of sayings by the most recent monarchs. This book is intended as an insight into the personalities, characteristics and idiosyncrasies of England's Kings and Queens and offers much more than just a chronology of dates.
Military Experience in the Age of Reason
Author: Christopher Duffy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135794588
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
First published in 1987. War in the 18th century was a bloody business. A line of infantry would slowly march, to the beat of a drum, into a hail of enemy fire. Whole ranks would be wiped out by cannon fire and musketry. Christopher Duffy's investigates the brutalities of the battlefield and also traces the lives of the officer to the soldier from the formative conditions of their earliest years to their violent deaths or retirement, and shows that, below their well-ordered exteriors, the armies of the Age of Reason underwent a revolutionary change from medieval to modern structures and ways of thinking.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135794588
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
First published in 1987. War in the 18th century was a bloody business. A line of infantry would slowly march, to the beat of a drum, into a hail of enemy fire. Whole ranks would be wiped out by cannon fire and musketry. Christopher Duffy's investigates the brutalities of the battlefield and also traces the lives of the officer to the soldier from the formative conditions of their earliest years to their violent deaths or retirement, and shows that, below their well-ordered exteriors, the armies of the Age of Reason underwent a revolutionary change from medieval to modern structures and ways of thinking.
Contemporary Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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The Parliamentary Debates
Author: Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
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Black & White
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 932
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