ISBN:
0816670366
,
0816670374
,
9780816670369
,
9780816670376
Language:
English
Pages:
xxiv, 293 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
,
26 cm
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Rao, Nikhil Preeti CHOPRA, A Joint Enterprise: Indian Elites and the Making of British Bombay. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. xxiv + 296 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8166-7036-9 (hbk.); 978-0-8166-7036-9 (pbk.). 82.50 (hbk.) / 27.50 (pbk.) 2013
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Chopra, Preeti, 19XX - A joint enterprise
DDC:
720.954/79209034
Keywords:
Architecture and society History 19th century
;
Architecture and society History 20th century
;
Social ecology
;
Colonial cities
;
Mumbai (India) Buildings, structures, etc
;
Mumbai (India) Social conditions
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- A joint enterprise -- Anglo-Indian architecture and the meaning of its styles -- The biography of an unknown native engineer -- Dividing practices in Bombay's hospitals and lunatic asylums -- An unforeseen landscape of contradictions -- Of gods and mortal heroes : conundrums of the secular landscape of colonial Bombay.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 263-279
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