Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World
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Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World

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Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World

About this book

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 cultures in the context of global interaction in the period 1851–1914. By focusing on episodes in the social and cultural lives of commodities, it explores some of the ways in which commodities shaped the colonial cultures of global modernity. Chapters by experts in the field examine the production, circulation, display and representation of commodities in various regional and national contexts, and draw on a range of theoretical and disciplinary approaches.

An integrated, coherent and urgent response to a number of key debates in postcolonial and Victorian studies, world literature and imperial history, this book will be of interest to researchers with interests in migration, commodity culture, colonial history and transnational networks of print and ideas.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9780367890117
eBook ISBN
9781351620000
Edition
1
Topic
Histoire
Subtopic
Histoire de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud

Index

Note: Page numbers in bold type refer to figures
Page numbers in italic type refer to tables
Page numbers followed by ‘n’ refer to notes
Abdul Karim Khan 34, 40
Abdullah (Dulhe) Khan of Agra 36
Abha Collection 37
Absolon, J. 49
acculturation 174–175
adaptation 5–6, 146
Addis, T.W. 33, 41n28
Adsett, T. 140
advertising 3, 6, 60, 121
Africa 3, 7, 10, 26, 77, 166; exhibitions 59, 154–5; exploration 184–96; ivory trade 80–5; poetry 184–96
Agamben, G. 8, 92–95, 98n22…25
agriculture 7, 64, 65, 70, 97n9, 106, 116
agricultural implements 66; and science 8
Ailsa (coolie ship) 124
Akbar II (Moghul emperor 1806–37) 18–21, 29n13…17; elephant procession watercolour 18–19, 19; titular invocation 18; writing cabinet and brooch images 20–21, 21, 29n28
Akbar Khan (Mughal prince) 24
Akbar Shah (Mughal emperor 1556–1605) 15
Alexandria 49–50, 200
Algebra for Beginners (Hall) 181
Algebra (Hall and Knight) 178–180
Algiers 44, 50
Alladiya Khan 36–37
Allan, J. (coolie transporter) 117–118
Allen, C. 203
Alley, K. 88
America, see Canada, United States
American West 44; British growth 45
Amphion (Tennyson) 191
Amundsen, R. 188
Anand, M.R. 155
Ancient Law (Maine) 149–151
Anderson, B. 44
Angel, Capt W.H. 124–125, 128n52
Angenot, M. 109
Anglo‐Afghan War (1839) 23
Anglo‐American Expedition (1876) 184, 191–192, see also Stanley, H.M.
Anglo‐Sikh War (1845–6) 23
anthropocentrism 5, 90
anthropology 1, 5–6, 36, 59, 75, 99, 88, 104, 150–1
anthropomorphization 4
anti‐Enlightenment 9...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. List of contributors
  9. Introduction
  10. SECTION I: Making and showing
  11. SECTION II: Place and environment
  12. SECTION III: Labour and migration
  13. SECTION IV: Texts in motion
  14. Selected Bibliography
  15. Index