Author: James RennellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Memoir of a map of Hindoostan, or the Mogul empire
Author: James RennellMemoir of a Map of Hindoostan Or the Mogul Empire with an Introduction and a Map of the Countries Statuated Between the Heads of the Indian Rivers and the Caspian Sea, Also a Supplementary Map Containing the Improved Geography of the Countries Contiguous to the Heads of the Indus. Added an Appendix Account of the Ganges and Burrampooter Rivers. The 3. Ed. with a 2nd Supplem. Map of the Peninsula of India
Author: James RennellMemoir of a Map of Hindoostan
Author: James RennellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Mapping an Empire
Author: Matthew H. EdneyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226184862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
In this fascinating history of the British surveys of India, Matthew H. Edney relates how imperial Britain used modern survey techniques to not only create and define the spatial image of its Empire, but also to legitimate its colonialist activities. "There is much to be praised in this book. It is an excellent history of how India came to be painted red in the nineteenth century. But more importantly, Mapping an Empire sets a new standard for books that examine a fundamental problem in the history of European imperialism."—D. Graham Burnett, Times Literary Supplement "Mapping an Empire is undoubtedly a major contribution to the rapidly growing literature on science and empire, and a work which deserves to stimulate a great deal of fresh thinking and informed research."—David Arnold, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History "This case study offers broadly applicable insights into the relationship between ideology, technology and politics. . . . Carefully read, this is a tale of irony about wishful thinking and the limits of knowledge."—Publishers Weekly
A Catalog of the Books Belonging to the Charleston Library Society
Author: Charleston Library Society (Charleston, S.C.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Proprietary libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged
Author: The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal
Author: The Nature of Geomorphological Hazards in the Nepal Himalaya
Author: Jan KalvodaPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303158421X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Ancient Ethnography
Author: Eran AlmagorPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472537602
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Ethnographic writing has become all but ubiquitous in recent years. Although now considered a thoroughly modern and increasingly indispensable field of study, Ethnography's roots go all the way back to antiquity. This volume brings together eleven original essays exploring the wider intellectual and cultural milieux from which ancient ethnography arose, its transformation and development in antiquity, and the way in which 19th century receptions of ethnographic traditions helped shape the modern study of the ancient world. Finally, it addresses the extent to which all these themes remain inextricably intertwined with shifting and often highly contested notions of culture, power and identity. Its chapters deal with the origins of the term 'barbarian', the role of ethnography in Tacitus' Germania, Plutarch's Lives, Xenophon's Anabasis, and Athenaeus' Deipnosophistae, Herodotean storytelling, Henry and George Rawlinson, and Megasthenes' treatise on India. At a time when modern ethnographies are becoming increasingly prevalent, wide-ranging, and experimental in their approach to describing cultural difference, this book encourages us to think about ancient ethnography in new and interesting ways, highlighting the wealth of material available for study and the complexities underpinning ancient and modern notions of what it meant to be Greek, Roman or 'barbarian'.
Society and Circulation
Author: Claude MarkovitsPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 184331231X
Category : Migration, Internal
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
The idea of an "eternal India", based on stable and unchanging villages, has been in disarray for at least two decades. However, having demolished this myth, historians have been rather less able to construct an alternative vision. This volume sets out to do just that, using the idea of "circulation" in relation to South Asia in the colonial period. It comprises a set of complementary essays which deal with merchant circulation, pilgrimages, cartography, policing, labor mobility, and the movement of itinerant groups from colonial administrators to wandering bards, demonstrating that the South Asia of this period was made and remade by changing patterns and the logic of circulation. Once this perspective is integrated into the analysis of society, new and disturbing questions emerge on issues such as culture, identity and ethnogenesis, which are normally treated in the context of fixed and stable societies. The essays in this volume - written by some of the leading authorities in South Asian history - break new ground in suggesting the outlines of a different framework for historical analysis. This volume will interest not only South Asianists, but also those interested in historical method as well as wider comparative perspectives on early modern and contemporary history.