Author: Sir Thomas WardlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural machinery
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886, Empire of India--special Catalogue of Exhibits by the Government of India and Private Exhibitors
Author: Sir Thomas WardlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural machinery
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geographical Society
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Calcutta (India). Imperial libraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Subject-index to the author-catalogue. 1908-10. 2 v
Author: Imperial Library, CalcuttaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Patent Office
Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
India in the American Imaginary, 1780s–1880s
Author: Anupama AroraPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319623346
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This book seeks to frame the “the idea of India” in the American imaginary within a transnational lens that is attentive to global flows of goods, people, and ideas within the circuits of imperial and maritime economies in nineteenth century America (roughly 1780s-1880s). This diverse and interdisciplinary volume – with essays by upcoming as well as established scholars – aims to add to an understanding of the fast changing terrain of economic, political, and cultural life in the US as it emerged from being a British colony to having imperial ambitions of its own on the global stage. The essays trace, variously, the evolution of the changing self-image of a nation embodying a surprisingly cosmopolitan sensibility, open to different cultural values and customs in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century to one that slowly adopted rigid and discriminatory racial and cultural attitudes spawned by the widespread missionary activities of the ABCFM and the fierce economic pulls and pushes of American mercantilism by the end of the nineteenth century. The different uses of India become a way of refining an American national identity.
The India Museum Revisited
Author: Arthur MacGregorPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1800085702
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
The museum of the East India Company formed, for a large part of the nineteenth century, one of the sights of London. In recent years, little has been remembered of it beyond its mere existence, while an assumed negative role has been widely attributed to it on the basis of its position at the heart of one of Britain’s arch-colonialist enterprises. Extensively illustrated, The India Museum Revisited provides a full examination of the museum’s founding manifesto and evolving ambitions. It surveys the contents of its multi-faceted collections – with respect to materials, their manufacture and original functions on the Indian sub-continent – as well as the collectors who gathered them and the manner in which they were mobilized to various ends within the museum. From this integrated treatment of documentary and material sources, a more accurate, rounded and nuanced picture emerges of an institution that contributed in major ways, over a period of 80 years, to the representation of India for a European audience, not only in Britain but through the museum’s involvement in the international exposition movement to audiences on the continent and beyond.
Catalogue of the Library of the Patent Office: Authors. 1898
Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography
Author: Exhibitions, Music and the British Empire
Author: Sarah KirbyPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783276738
Category : Exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"International exhibitions were among the most significant cultural phenomena of the late nineteenth century. These vast events aimed to illustrate, through displays of physical objects, the full spectrum of the world's achievements, from industry and manufacturing, to art and design. But exhibitions were not just visual spaces. Music was ever present, as a fundamental part of these events' sonic landscape, and integral to the visitor experience. This book explores music at international exhibitions held in Australia, India, and the United Kingdom during the 1880s. At these exhibitions, music was codified, ordered, and all-round 'exhibited' in manifold ways. Displays of physical instruments from the past and present were accompanied by performances intended to educate or to entertain, while music was heard at exhibitors' stands, in concert halls, and in the pleasure gardens that surrounded the exhibition buildings. Music was depicted as a symbol of human artistic achievement, or employed for commercial ends. At times it was presented in nationalist terms, at others as a marker of universalism. This book argues, by interrogating the multiple ways that music was used, experienced, and represented, that exhibitions can demonstrate in microcosm many of the broader musical traditions, purposes, arguments, and anxieties of the day. Its nine chapters focus on sociocultural themes, covering issues of race, class, public education, economics, and entertainment in the context of music, trading these through the networks of communication that existed within the British Empire at the time. Combining approaches from reception studies and historical musicology, this book demonstrates how the representation of music at exhibitions drew the press and public into broader debates about music's role in society"--Page 4 of cover.