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  • Indigenous Modernities

    Negotiating Architecture and Urbanism

    di Jyoti Hosagrahar ...
    Serie series Architext
    This book examines how a historic and so-called 'traditional' city quietly evolved into one that was modern in its own terms; in form, use and meaning. Through a focused study of Delhi, the author challenges prevalent assumptions in architecture and urbanism to identify an interpretation of modernism that goes beyond conventional understanding.Part one reflects on transformations and ... Altre info

    75,07 €

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  • A Concise History of Modern India

    di Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf ...
    Serie series Cambridge Concise Histories
    A Concise History of Modern India by Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, has become a classic in the field since it was first published in 2001. As a fresh interpretation of Indian history from the Mughals to the present, it has informed students across the world. In the third edition of the book, a final chapter charts the dramatic developments of the last twenty years, from 1990 through ... Altre info

    24,85 €

  • Museums Matter

    In Praise of the Encyclopedic Museum

    di James Cuno ...
    Serie series Campbell Lectures
    The concept of an encyclopedic museum was born of the Enlightenment, a manifestation of society’s growing belief that the spread of knowledge and the promotion of intellectual inquiry were crucial to human development and the future of a rational society. But in recent years, museums have been under attack, with critics arguing that they are little more than relics and promoters of imperialism. ... Altre info

    14,13 €

  • The Social Life of Things

    Commodities in Cultural Perspective

    Rivisto da Arjun Appadurai ...
    The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Focusing on culturally defined aspects of exchange and socially regulated processes of ... Altre info

    27,86 €

  • Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not

    Global Economic Divergence, 1600–1850

    di Prasannan Parthasarathi ...
    Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe industrialised from the late eighteenth century and Asia did not. Drawing significantly from the case of India, Prasannan Parthasarathi shows that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the advanced regions of Europe and Asia were more alike than different, both characterized by ... Altre info

    29,94 €

  • Alice in Bhuleshwar: Navigating a Mumbai Neighbourhood

    di Kaiwan Mehta ...
    Kaiwan Mehta takes the reader for a walk through the streets and past the buildings of the ‘native town’ of colonial Bombay, reading their histories and excavating their memories, while continuing to negotiate their present context. This historic neighbourhood of Mumbai, fondly referred to as Bhuleshwar, has remained a residential and religious hub as before, while thriving as the city’s ... Altre info

    2,43 €

  • Whose Culture?

    The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities

    Rivisto da James Cuno ...
    The international controversy over who "owns" antiquities has pitted museums against archaeologists and source countries where ancient artifacts are found. In his book Who Owns Antiquity?, James Cuno argued that antiquities are the cultural property of humankind, not of the countries that lay exclusive claim to them. Now in Whose Culture?, Cuno assembles preeminent museum directors, curators, and ... Altre info

    24,95 €

  • India's Environmental History—A Reader

    Vol. 1: From Ancient Times to the Colonial Period; Vol. 2: Colonialism, Modernity, and the Nation

    di Mahesh Rangarajan, K. Sivaramakrishnan ...
    Environmental history in India has generated a rich literature on forests, wildlife, humananimal conflict, tribal rights and commercial degradation, displacement and development, pastoralism and desertification, famine and disease, sedentarism and mobility, wildness and civility, and the ecology versus equity debate.This reader brings together some of the best and most interesting writing on India ... Altre info

    25,92 €

  • The City in South Asia

    di James Heitzman ...
    Serie series Asia's Transformations/Asia's Great Cities
    The macro-region of South Asia – including Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka – today supports one of the world’s greatest concentrations of cities, but as James Heitzman argues in the first comprehensive treatment of urban South Asia, this has been the case for at least 5,000 years.With a strong emphasis on the production of space and periodic excursions into literature, art and ... Altre info

    60,77 €

  • The Slow Boil

    Street Food, Rights and Public Space in Mumbai

    di Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria ...
    Serie series South Asia in Motion
    Street food vendors are both a symbol and a scourge of Mumbai: cheap roadside snacks are enjoyed by all, but the people who make them dance on a razor's edge of legality. While neighborhood associations want the vendors off cluttered sidewalks, many Mumbaikers appreciate the convenient bargains they offer. In The Slow Boil, Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria draws on his long-term fieldwork with these ... Altre info

    21,10 €

  • The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History

    Rivisto da Peter Clark ...
    Serie series Oxford Handbooks
    In 2008 for the first time the majority of the planet's inhabitants lived in cities and towns. Becoming globally urban has been one of mankind's greatest collective achievements over time, and raises many questions. How did global city systems evolve and interact in the past? How have historic urban patterns impacted on those of the contemporary world? And what were the key drivers in the roller ... Altre info

    45,33 €

  • Everyday Technology

    Machines and the Making of India's Modernity

    di David Arnold ...
    In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract Hind Swaraj, laying out his vision for the future of India and famously rejecting the technological innovations of Western civilization. Despite his protestations, Western technology endured and helped to make India one of the leading economies in our globalized world. Few would question ... Altre info

    13,61 € o Gratuito con Kobo Plus