The Other Empire : Metropolis, India and Progress in the Colonial Imagination

This is a detailed study of the various ways in which London and India were imaginatively constructed by British observers during the nineteenth century. This process took place within a unified field of knowledge that brought together travel and evangelical accounts to exert a formative influence o...

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Autor principal: John Marriott
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Publicado: Manchester University Press 2003
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