ISBN:
0-7190-6018-4
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 241 S.
Edition:
1. publ.
Series Statement:
Studies in imperialism
DDC:
305.5/69/0942109034
Keywords:
Geschichte 1800-1900
;
Geschichte
;
Armoede
;
Changement social - Angleterre - Londres - Histoire - 19e siècle
;
Changement social - Inde - Histoire - 19e siècle
;
Impérialisme - Histoire - 19e siècle
;
Kolonialisme
;
Pauvres - Angleterre - Londres - Histoire - 19e siècle
;
Pauvres en milieu urbain - Inde - Histoire - 19e siècle
;
Steden
;
Geschichte
;
Stadt
;
Urban poor History 19th century
;
Social change History 19th century
;
Urban poor History 19th century
;
Social change History 19th century
;
Imperialism History 19th century
;
Kolonialismus.
;
Sozialer Wandel.
;
Inde - Conditions sociales - 1765-1947
;
Londres (Angleterre) - Conditions sociales - 19e siècle
;
Indien
;
London (England) Social conditions
;
India Social conditions
;
Großbritannien.
;
Indien.
;
England.
;
Kolonialismus
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Geschichte
;
Kolonialismus
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
"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 an uneven field of knowledge that brought together travel and evangelical accounts to exert a formative influence on the creation of London and India for the domestic reading public. Their distinct narratives, rhetoric and chronologies forged homologies between representations of the metropolitan poor and colonial subjects. Thus the poor and particular sections of the Indian population - seen as the most threatening to imperial progress - were inscribed within discourses of Western civilisation as regressive and inferior peoples. Over time these discourses increasingly promoted notions of over and rigid racial hierarchies, the legacy of which remains to this day." "This comparative analysis looks afresh at the writings of observers such as Henry Mayhew, Patrick Colquhoun, Charles Grant, Pierce Egan, James Forbes and Emma Roberts, thereby seeking to rethink the location of the poor and India within the nineteenth-century imagination. Drawing upon cultural and intellectual history it also attempts to extend our understanding of the relationship between 'centre' and 'periphery', and of the nature of imperial modernity." "The other empire will be of value to students and scholars of modern imperial and urban history, cultural studies, and religious studies."--BOOK JACKET.
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Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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