Описание: This book takes a fresh look at one of Asia`s great cities, a metropolis of hope and decay that was once the Second City of the British Empire after London. With around 200 photographs, including historic black-and-white images, coupled with a timely and detailed text, the book takes us through the streets, ghats, and corridors of Calcutta and paints an inclusive and nuanced portrait of the city.
Описание: This book on colonial Calcutta charts the history of its urbanization from below in its streets, strikes and popular urban cultures. Claiming the City offers a close up view of the citys underbelly by drawing in a range of non-archival sources, from illustrations and amateur photographs to street songs, local histories and memoirs which show how Calcutta was not just a problem to be disciplined and governed as the colonialists would have us believe. Instead, itemerges in Ghoshs study as remarkably lively and crucial site for the shaping of a discourse of rights and claims to the city by various marginal urban groups. In doing so, the book uses the everyday as a prism for capturing the many urban political and social imaginaries that shaped the city throughscandals, crime, street songs, protest and violence.
Автор: Sen Название: Calcutta in Colonial Transition ISBN: 1138366919 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138366916 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book brings home the story of how three clustered villages grew into a primate city, in which a garrison town, a port city and the capital of an empire merged into one entity-Calcutta. A comprehensive biography of Calcutta, this volume lays bare the underbelly of the British Raj and its colonial enterprise.
Автор: Sen, Ranjit Название: Calcutta in Colonial Transition ISBN: 036773141X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367731410 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6123.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Souvik Naha Название: Cricket, Public Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Calcutta ISBN: 1108494587 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108494588 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 12355.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: What prompts common people to kill a guard and rob an office they thought had some tickets for a Test match? Why does a scholar of medieval Bengali literature remark, 'Had life been a sport, it would be cricket'? Who do journalists vindicate by promoting cricket, the imperial game par excellence, as the lifeforce of the ordinary Indian? This book pursues these threads of the people's uncanny attachment to cricket, seeking to understand the sport's role in the making of a postcolonial society. With a focus on Calcutta, it unpacks the various connotations of international cricket that have produced a postcolonial community and public culture. Cricket, it shows, gave the people a tool to understand and form themselves as a cultural community. More than the outcomes of matches, the beliefs, attitudes and actions the sport generated had an immense bearing on emerging social relationships.
Автор: Murphy, Tim Название: Representing Religion ISBN: 1845530926 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781845530921 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6123.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Murphy, Tim Название: Representing Religion ISBN: 1845530918 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781845530914 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Saha, Ranjana Название: Modern Maternities ISBN: 1032066199 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032066196 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Boswell, David Название: Representing the Nation: A Reader ISBN: 041520870X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415208703 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5817.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Название: Culture front ISBN: 0812240553 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812240559 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 10811.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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For most of the last four centuries, the broad expanse of territory between the Baltic and the Black Seas, known since the Enlightenment as "Eastern Europe," has been home to the world's largest Jewish population. The Jews of Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Galicia, Romania, and Ukraine were prodigious generators of modern Jewish culture. Their volatile blend of religious traditionalism and precocious quests for collective self-emancipation lies at the heart of Culture Front. This volume brings together contributions by both historians and literary scholars to take readers on a journey across the cultural history of East European Jewry from the mid-seventeenth century to the present. The articles collected here explore how Jews and their Slavic neighbors produced and consumed imaginative representations of Jewish life in chronicles, plays, novels, poetry, memoirs, museums, and more. The book puts culture at the forefront of analysis, treating verbal artistry itself as a kind of frontier through which Jews and Slavs imagined, experienced, and negotiated with themselves and each other. The four sections investigate the distinctive themes of that frontier: violence and civility; popular culture; politics and aesthetics; and memory. The result is a fresh exploration of ideas and movements that helped change the landscape of modern Jewish history.
Автор: Bintley Michael D.J. Название: Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavi ISBN: 178327008X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783270088 Издательство: Boydell & Brewer Рейтинг: Цена: 15048.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Essays on the depiction of animals, birds and insects in early medieval material culture, from texts to carvings to the landscape itself.
Автор: Boswell, David Название: Representing the Nation: A Reader ISBN: 0415208696 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415208697 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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