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Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World book cover

1st Edition

Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World

Edited By Supriya Chaudhuri, Josephine McDonagh, Brian Murray, Rajeswari Rajan Copyright 2018
242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Commodity, culture and colonialism are intimately related and mutually constitutive. The desire for commodities drove colonial expansion at the same time that colonial expansion fuelled technological invention, created new markets for goods, displaced populations and transformed local and indigenous cultures in dramatic and often violent ways. This book analyses the transformation of local... Read more

Introduction



Part 1: Making and Showing



1. Mughal Delhi on my lapel: The charmed life of the painted ivory miniature in Delhi, 1827–1880



2. Plates and Bangles: Early Recorded Music in India



3. The Overland Mail: Moving Panoramas and the Imagining of Trade and Communication Networks



4. Exhibiting India: Colonial Subjects, Imperial Objects, and the Life of Commodities



Part 2: Place and Environment



5. The Composition and Decomposition of Commodities: The Colonial Careers of Coal and Ivory



6. Profaning Water: The Sacred and Its Others



7. Settling the Land: the Village and the Threat of Capital in the Novel in Goa



Part 3: Labour and Migration



8. (Re)Moving Bodies: People, Ships and other Commodities in the Coolie Trade from Calcutta



9. Anxiety, Affect and Authenticity: The Commodification of Nineteenth-Century Emigrants’ Letters



10. Towards a Genealogy of the Village in the Nineteenth-Century British Colonial World: Mary Russell Mitford and Henry Sumner Maine



Part 4: Texts in Motion



11. Indigo and Print: the strange case of the 'Indigo-Planting Mirror'



12. Al Jabr w’al Muqabila: H.S. Hall, Macmillan and the Coming Together of Things Far Apart



13. Ulysses in Darkest Africa: Transporting Tennyson with H.M. Stanley and Edwin Arnold



14. The Traffic in Representations: the case of Kipling's Kim

Biography

Supriya Chaudhuri is Professor Emerita in the Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.



Josephine McDonagh is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Chicago. 



Brian H. Murray is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century English Literature at King’s College London.



Rajeswari Sunder Rajan is Global Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at New York University.

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