{"product_id":"colonial-voices-9781444338560","title":"Colonial Voices","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis accessible cultural history explores 400 years of British imperial adventure in India, developing a coherent narrative through a wide range of colonial documents, from exhibition catalogues to memoirs and travelogues. It shows how these texts helped legitimize the moral ambiguities of colonial rule even as they helped the English fashion themselves.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn engaging examination of European colonizers' representations of native populations\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAnalyzes colonial discourse through an impressive range of primary sources, including memoirs, letters, exhibition catalogues, administrative reports, and travelogues\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSurveys 400 years of India's history, from the 16th century to the end of the British Empire\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDemonstrates how colonial discourses naturalized the racial and cultural differences between the English and the Indians, and controlled anxieties over these differences\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Introducing Colonial Discourse 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Travel, Exploration, and ‘‘Discovery’’: From Imagination to Inquiry 12\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eImagining Multiple Worlds: The Fantasy of ‘‘Discovery’’\u003c\/i\u003e 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Narrative Organization of Discovery\u003c\/i\u003e 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘‘Inquiry’’ and the Documentation of the Others\u003c\/i\u003e 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConclusion: ‘‘Discovery’’ and Wonder, ‘‘Contracted and Epitomized’’\u003c\/i\u003e 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 The Discourse of Difference: Constructing the Colonial Exotic 55\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Colony and Imperial Wealth\u003c\/i\u003e 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Exotic in English Culture\u003c\/i\u003e 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Colonial Exotic: Aesthetics, Science, and Difference\u003c\/i\u003e 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sentimental Exotic\u003c\/i\u003e 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Scientific Exotic\u003c\/i\u003e 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConclusion: From the Indian to the Colonial Exotic\u003c\/i\u003e 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Empire Management: From Domestication to Spectacle 104\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Domestication of Colonial Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdministering Colonial Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘‘Raising the General Credit of the Empire’’: The Spectacle of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e 140\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConclusion: Imperial Improvisation and the Spectacle\u003c\/i\u003e 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Civilizing the Empire: The Ideology of Moral and Material Progress 161\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEngland’s Age of Improvement\u003c\/i\u003e 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiscipline and Improve\u003c\/i\u003e 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eImperial Lessons\u003c\/i\u003e 174\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Salvific Colonial\u003c\/i\u003e 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRescue, Reform, and Race\u003c\/i\u003e 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConclusion: From Improvement to Self-Legitimization\u003c\/i\u003e 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Aesthetic Understanding: From Colonial English to Imperial Cosmopolitans 201\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Self-Fashioning of the Scholar-Colonial\u003c\/i\u003e 204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAntiquarian Aesthetics and Colonial Authority\u003c\/i\u003e 213\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘‘Consumption, Ingestion, and Decoration’’: Colonial Commodities\u003c\/i\u003e 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe ‘‘Empire City’’: Pageantry and Empire\u003c\/i\u003e 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConclusion: From Colonial English to Imperial Cosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 260\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408392659287,"sku":"9781444338560","price":86.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781444338560.jpg?v=1730502735","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/colonial-voices-9781444338560","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}