Commodities and culture in the colonial world

by Chaudhuri, Supriya McDonagh, Josephine Murray, Brian H. Sunder Rajan, Rajeswari

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Full title :Commodities and culture in the colonial world / edited by Supriya Chaudhuri, Josephine McDonagh, Brian H. Murray and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

Summary

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

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2018

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2018

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiii, 228 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781351620000, 1351620002, 9781351620017, 1351620010, 9781351619998, 1351619993, 9781315111766, 1315111764
oclc:ocn993952240
LC Classification:JC359
Dewey Decimal:306.3/40917124109034

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 Plunkett -- Exhibiting India : colonial subjects, imperial objects, and the lives of commodities / Supriya Chaudhuri -- The composition and decomposition of commodities : the colonial careers of coal and ivory / Stephen Muecke -- Profaning water : the sacred and its others / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan -- Settling the land : the village and the threat of capital in the novel in Goa / Rochelle Pinto -- (Re)moving bodies : people, ships and other commodities in the coolie trade from Calcutta / Nilanjana Deb -- Anxiety, affect and authenticity : the commodification of nineteenth-century emigrants' letters / Fariha Shaikh -- Towards a genealogy of the village in the nineteenth-century British colonial world : Mary Russell Mitford and Henry Sumner Maine / Josephine McDonagh -- Indigo and print : the strange case of the "indigo-planting mirror" / Abhijit Gupta -- Al Jabr W'al Muqabila, H.S. Hall, MacMillan and the comi…

Subjects

British colonies Commerce international -- Histoire -- 1… Grande-Bretagne -- Colonies -- 19e sièc… Great Britain -- Colonies -- 19th centu… History Imperialism -- Economic aspects Imperialism -- Economic aspects -- 19th… Imperialism -- Social aspects Imperialism -- Social aspects -- 19th c… Imperialism in literature Impérialisme -- Aspect économique -- 19… Impérialisme -- Aspect social -- 19e si… Impérialisme dans la littérature international trade International trade -- History -- 19th … POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture