"The still-life paintings of the Dutch Golden Age depict tables richly laid with products from the far corners of the earth, products attesting to the vast scope of the Dutch trade network. These pictures reveal much more about Dutch society and capitalist culture of the sevente…
Mughal on my lapel : miniatures, mughalerie, and the souvenir market in Delhi, 1827-1880 / Yutika Sharma -- Plates and bangles : early recorded music in India / Amlan Das Gupta -- The overland mail : moving panoramas and the imagining of trade and communication networks / John P…
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…
This text engages with languages policies and positions in relation to the roles and functions these languages adopt. It examines the 'value' of languages, defined in terms of the power they have in the global marketplace as much as within the complex matrices of the local socio…
This text engages with languages policies and positions in relation to the roles and functions these languages adopt. It examines the 'value' of languages, defined in terms of the power they have in the global marketplace as much as within the complex matrices of the local socio…