The alchemy of empire abject materials and the technologies of colonialism
Machine generated contents note:Introduction: Mud, Mortar, and Empire -- 1. The Alchemy of Empire -- 2. Mortar and the Making of Madras -- 3. Ice and the Production of British Climate -- 4. Inoculation and the Limits of British Imperialism -- 5. "Plaisters," Paper, and the Labor of Letters...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York
Fordham University Press
2016
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| Ausgabe: | First edition |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Machine generated contents note:Introduction: Mud, Mortar, and Empire -- 1. The Alchemy of Empire -- 2. Mortar and the Making of Madras -- 3. Ice and the Production of British Climate -- 4. Inoculation and the Limits of British Imperialism -- 5. "Plaisters," Paper, and the Labor of Letters -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited. "The Alchemy of Empire unravels the non-European origins of Enlightenment science. Focusing on the abject materials of empire-building, this study traces the genealogies of substances like mud, mortar, ice, and paper, and forms of knowledge like inoculation, arguing that East India Company employees deployed the paradigm of alchemy in order to make sense of the new worlds they confronted"-- "The Alchemy of Empire unravels the non-European origins of Enlightenment science. Focusing on the abject materials of empire-building, this study traces the genealogies of substances like mud, mortar, ice, and paper, as well as forms of knowledge like inoculation. Showing how East India Company employees deployed the paradigm of alchemy in order to make sense of the new worlds they confronted, Rajani Sudan argues that the Enlightenment was born largely out of Europe's (and Britain's) sense of insecurity and inferiority in the early modern world. Plumbing the depths of the imperial archive, Sudan uncovers the history of the British Enlightenment in the literary artifacts of the long eighteenth century, from the correspondence of the East India Company and the papers of the Royal Society to the poetry of Alexander Pope and the novels of Jane Austen"-- Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Mud, Mortar, and Empire -- 1. The Alchemy of Empire -- 2. Mortar and the Making of Madras -- 3. Ice and the Production of British Climate -- 4. Inoculation and the Limits of British Imperialism -- 5. "Plaisters," Paper, and the Labor of Letters -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 201-211 |
| Beschreibung: | 223 Seiten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780823270675 978-0-8232-7067-5 9780823270682 978-0-8232-7068-2 |