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Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India's Modernity - science.culture
Arnold, David (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India's Modernity - science.culture
Arnold, David (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
Showcases how small machines and consumer goods that originated in Europe and North America became objects of everyday use in India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The author examines how such technologies became integral to fresh ways of thinking about class, race, and gender, as well as about the politics of colonial rule.
232 pages, 22 halftones, 4 tables
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | March 11, 2015 |
ISBN13 | 9780226269375 |
Publishers | The University of Chicago Press |
Genre | Cultural Region > Indian - Interdisciplinary Studies > Asian Studies |
Pages | 232 |
Dimensions | 217 × 139 × 9 mm · 282 g |
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