The Small Spaces of Empire: Long-distance Trade, Anglo-Indian Foodways and the Bottlekhana.
This article is an invitation to shift the analytic focus of empire to its small spaces. Bringing one aspect of the trade history of British India – the trade in European provisions and foodstuff – in conversation with the history of colonial architecture and Anglo-Indian foodways, I argue that smal...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 1 - 45 |
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