The Imperial Archive
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The Imperial Archive
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Author : Thomas Richards
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 1993-11-17
The Imperial Archive written by Thomas Richards and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-11-17 with History categories.
Argues that by meeting the vast administrative challenge of the British Empire - thorough maps and surveys, censuses and statistics - Victorian administrators developed a new symbiosis of knowledge and power. The book draws on works by Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells and Bram Stoker.
Sources And Methods In Histories Of Colonialism
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Author : Kirsty Reid
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-03-27
Sources And Methods In Histories Of Colonialism written by Kirsty Reid and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-27 with History categories.
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- PART I -- 1 Democratising the photographic archive -- 2 Archival detours: sourcing colonial history -- 3 Decolonizing the archives: a transnational perspective -- PART II -- 4 Archiving Algeria: power, violence and secrecy -- 5 Colonial knowledge and subaltern voices: the case of an official enquiry in mid-nineteenth-century Java -- 6 Making people countable: analyzing paper trails and the imperial census -- PART III -- 7 Institutional case files: insanity's archive -- 8 Gender, geopolitics and gaps in the records: women glimpsed in the military archives -- 9 Entanglement of oral sources and colonial records -- 10 Living empire -- Index
Sources And Methods In Histories Of Colonialism
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Author : Kirsty Reid
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017
Sources And Methods In Histories Of Colonialism written by Kirsty Reid and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History categories.
Sources and Methods in Histories of Colonialism encourages readers to think more critically and analytically about the archives in which they work as well as about their research methods, their sources and their conceptual approaches. This volume provides an in-depth and critical survey of the now substantial and influential scholarly literatures on the functions and scope of the 'imperial archive' and on the relationships between the archive, knowledge and power. It allows readers to develop a deeper understanding of the challenges of working with a range of specific source genres within imperial and colonial archives. It explores the ways in which newer approaches to, and ways of thinking about, the past have challenged more traditional views of 'the archive', provoking new questions about what archives are and where their conceptual, geographical and chronological boundaries might lie. And, it assesses the implications of these shifts for those interested in researching and writing about colonial and postcolonial societies. Focusing on the period from the late eighteenth century to the present, the authors examine issues, themes and case studies pertaining to a broad range of modern empires including those established by Britain, France, the Netherlands, Spain and the United States. The source genres discussed illustrate and exemplify a range of core themes and debates regarding the writing of colonial and postcolonial histories, covering a range of subjects including government papers, censuses, petitions, case-files, and orality. Many of the chapters combine an overview of the current state of research and writing about a particular source genre or conceptual theme with a case study. This combination of overview and case study will enable readers to explore and examine the issues in a grounded, hands-on and applied fashion.
Discoveries Explorations And The Imperial Survey
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Author : Pramod K. Nayar
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-02-15
Discoveries Explorations And The Imperial Survey written by Pramod K. Nayar and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-15 with History categories.
India and the subcontinent stimulated the curiosity of the British who came to India as traders. Each aspect of life in India - its people, customs, geography, climate, fauna and flora - was documented by British travelers, traders, administrators, soldiers to make sense to the European mind. As they 'discovered' India and occupied it, they also attempted to 'civilise' the natives. The present volumes focus on select aspects of the imperial archives: the accounts of “discovery” and exploration – fauna and flora, geography, climate – the people of the subcontinent, English domesticity and social life in the subcontinent, the wars and skirmishes – including the “Mutiny” of 1857-58 – and the “civilisational mission”. Volume 1 'Discoveries', Explorations and the Imperial Survey consists of documents that deal with England's discovery of India, its exploration and mapping of the subcontinent. The texts collected here are accounts of how the British 'discovered' the subcontinent. The narrative of discovery, with the freshness of the 'new', was couched very often in the rhetoric of wonder. But this sense of wonder, even astonishment in some cases at the variety, magnitude and sheer difference of the land and its people, was tempered over time with a narrative of exploration. If the 'discovery' moment had a surprise, awe and a sense of uncertainty at facing something totally new-which, in many ways, the subcontinent was-in the early writings of the seventeenth century, the tone, emphasis and attitude shifts later on.
Indian People And Society
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Author : Pramod K. Nayar
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-02-15
Indian People And Society written by Pramod K. Nayar and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-15 with History categories.
India and the subcontinent stimulated the curiosity of the British who came to India as traders. Each aspect of life in India - its people, customs, geography, climate, fauna and flora - was documented by British travelers, traders, administrators, soldiers to make sense to the European mind. As they 'discovered' India and occupied it, they also attempted to 'civilise' the natives. The present volumes focus on select aspects of the imperial archives: the accounts of “discovery” and exploration – fauna and flora, geography, climate – the people of the subcontinent, English domesticity and social life in the subcontinent, the wars and skirmishes – including the “Mutiny” of 1857-58 – and the “civilisational mission”. Volume 2 Indian People and Society includes English studies of Indian languages, people and communities, and the social order. The landscape provided, understandably, endless prospects of the survey and the map. But the British were also keen on documenting the people. In the studies generated for 400 years, the British documented castes, religions, education, economies, professions, cultural practices, states of health and sickness, and other domains. With projects like the Census and the People of India, the land's inhabitants were classified and, eventually, also typecast and contributed to the colonial discourse about the native/colonised.
The Civilisational Mission
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Author : Pramod K. Nayar
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-02-15
The Civilisational Mission written by Pramod K. Nayar and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-15 with History categories.
India and the subcontinent stimulated the curiosity of the British who came to India as traders. Each aspect of life in India - its people, customs, geography, climate, fauna and flora - was documented by British travelers, traders, administrators, soldiers to make sense to the European mind. As they 'discovered' India and occupied it, they also attempted to 'civilise' the natives. The present volumes focus on select aspects of the imperial archives: the accounts of “discovery” and exploration – fauna and flora, geography, climate – the people of the subcontinent, English domesticity and social life in the subcontinent, the wars and skirmishes – including the “Mutiny” of 1857-58 – and the “civilisational mission”. Volume 5 The 'Civilisational Mission' documents England's social reform and other efforts at 'improving' the colonised. The British, like other Europeans in Africa and Asian colonies, explained, defended and promoted their presence and action by presenting themselves in the role of the civilisers.
Rebellions And Wars
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Author : Pramod K. Nayar
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-02-15
Rebellions And Wars written by Pramod K. Nayar and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-15 with History categories.
India and the subcontinent stimulated the curiosity of the British who came to India as traders. Each aspect of life in India - its people, customs, geography, climate, fauna and flora - was documented by British travelers, traders, administrators, soldiers to make sense to the European mind. As they 'discovered' India and occupied it, they also attempted to 'civilise' the natives. The present volumes focus on select aspects of the imperial archives: the accounts of “discovery” and exploration – fauna and flora, geography, climate – the people of the subcontinent, English domesticity and social life in the subcontinent, the wars and skirmishes – including the “Mutiny” of 1857-58 – and the “civilisational mission”. Volume 4 Rebellions and Wars is a collection of accounts of a very different British life in India: as prisoners, under siege and in conditions of war. The British ascendancy in India did not proceed smoothly, and colonisation was always a militarised zone of interest, action and process.
Domesticity The Social Scene And Leisure
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Author : Pramod K. Nayar
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-02-15
Domesticity The Social Scene And Leisure written by Pramod K. Nayar and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-15 with History categories.
India and the subcontinent stimulated the curiosity of the British who came to India as traders. Each aspect of life in India - its people, customs, geography, climate, fauna and flora - was documented by British travelers, traders, administrators, soldiers to make sense to the European mind. As they 'discovered' India and occupied it, they also attempted to 'civilise' the natives. The present volumes focus on select aspects of the imperial archives: the accounts of “discovery” and exploration – fauna and flora, geography, climate – the people of the subcontinent, English domesticity and social life in the subcontinent, the wars and skirmishes – including the “Mutiny” of 1857-58 – and the “civilisational mission”. Volume 3 Domesticity, the Social Scene and Leisure shifts the focus to the English home and social life. Domesticity, often a fraught exercise for the 'memsahib', carried on with the assistance of a retinue of Indian servants, meant tackling corruption, inefficiency and the all-pervasive social hierarchy of the colonised. Advice books were produced to aid the memsahib for this purpose. The Steel-Gardiner guide to housekeeping, which was a bestseller in its day and is excerpted here, was indispensable in the length and breadth of its coverage, from the care of children to the right wages for the servants. Diver's text, likewise, also demonstrates how running the home was difficult and has a resonance with the (male) dominion of running the Empire. These texts exhorted the English woman to practice thrift, control and managerial skills, to be aware of the natives' penchant for dirt and indolence and the caste-community dynamics that inform the servant-class.
The Birth Of The Archive
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Author : Markus Friedrich
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2018-02-26
The Birth Of The Archive written by Markus Friedrich and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-26 with History categories.
The dynamic but little-known story of how archives came to shape and be shaped by European culture and society
Import Of The Archive
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Author : Cheryl Beredo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Import Of The Archive written by Cheryl Beredo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Archives categories.
"Examines the role of archives in the United States' colonization of the Philippines between 1898 and 1916"--Provided by publisher.