Interiors of empire : objects, space and identity within the Indian Subcontinent, c.1800-1947 / Robi...
Interiors of empire : objects, space and identity within the Indian Subcontinent, c.1800-1947 / Robi...
Interiors of empire : objects, space and identity within the Indian Subcontinent, c.1800-1947 / Robin D. Jones.
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Publisher
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2007.
Date
2007.
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N747.0954/1
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English
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Physical content
xvi, 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Locating the East Indian home: settlement, forms of housing and the local environment -- 2. Objects, memory and identity: the Anglo-Indian domestic sphere -- 3. 'Furnished in English style' : globalization of local elite domestic interiors -- 4. Domesticating authority in the public spaces of emp...
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Publisher
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2007.
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England
Date Published
2007.
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Summary
"Interiors of Empire uses the methods of design history and material culture studies to analyse the domestic and public interiors of the British and local middle class during the heyday of the British Raj. Challenging recent accounts of the role of colonial domestic space, it contrasts representations of that space within contemporary discourse wit...
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Interiors of empire : objects, space and identity within the Indian Subcontinent, c.1800-1947 / Robin D. Jones.
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Studies in design.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N747.0954/1
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74VM8AZb4oDO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VM8AZb4oDO
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ISBN
0719069424 (hbk.) :
9780719069420 (hbk.) :
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747.095409034
MMS ID
991000226009702626
