دانلود کتاب Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of contributors
Introduction
A world of commodities
Reading commodities
The cultures of commodities
Notes
SECTION I: Making and showing
1. Mughal Delhi on my lapel: The charmed life of the painted ivory miniature in Delhi, 1827–1880
The last Mughal souvenir: Mughal subversion of the colonial image-gift
From connoisseur to consumer: Mughal miniatures in Anglo-Indian Delhi
Contextualizing Mughalerie
Afterlife: The Delhi ivory miniature in the marketplace
Notes
2. Plates and bangles: Early recorded music in India
Notes
3. The Overland Mail: Moving panoramas and the imagining of trade and communication networks
Notes
4. Exhibiting India: Colonial subjects, imperial objects, and the lives of commodities
Notes
SECTION II: Place and environment
5. The composition and decomposition of commodities: The colonial careers of coal and ivory
Coal
Ivory
Notes
6. Profaning water: The sacred and its others
I
II
III
IV
V
Notes
7. Settling the land: The village and the threat of capital in the novel in Goa
Linearity and commodification
Origin stories and history
Pre-lapsarian economies
Naturalizing the settler
The sea in geological time
Realism and ethnography
Notes
SECTION III: Labour and migration
8. (Re)moving bodies: People, ships and other commodities in the coolie trade from Calcutta
Notes
9. Anxiety, affect and authenticity: The commodification of nineteenth-century emigrants’ letters
Becoming print
Emigrant tokens
Producing authenticity
Notes
10. Towards a genealogy of the village in the nineteenth-century British colonial world: Mary Russell Mitford and Henry Sumner Maine
The village tale
Village communities
Village spectacles
Notes
SECTION IV: Texts in motion
11. Indigo and print: The case of the ‘Indigo-Planting Mirror’
Notes
12. Al jabr w’al muqabila: H.S. Hall, Macmillan and the coming together of things far apart
Notes
13. Ulysses in ‘darkest Africa’: Transporting Tennyson with H.M. Stanley and Edwin Arnold
Tennyson’s explorers
Stanley’s poets
Edwin Arnold’s African epic
Notes
14. The traffic in representations: The case of Kipling’s Kim
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index