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The Alchemy of Empire : Abject Materials and the Technologies of Colonialism / Rajani Sudan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780823270675
  • 9780823270705
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.926 23//engeng
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- introduction. Mud, Mortar, and Empire -- one. The Alchemy of Empire -- two. Mortar and the Making of Madras -- three. Ice and the Production of British Climate -- four. Inoculation and the Limits of British Imperialism -- five. "Plaisters," Paper, and the Labor of Letters -- Epilogue -- acknowledgments -- notes -- bibliography -- Index
Summary: Named 'Top 6' South Asia studies publications of 2016 by the British Association for South Asian StudiesThe 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- introduction. Mud, Mortar, and Empire -- one. The Alchemy of Empire -- two. Mortar and the Making of Madras -- three. Ice and the Production of British Climate -- four. Inoculation and the Limits of British Imperialism -- five. "Plaisters," Paper, and the Labor of Letters -- Epilogue -- acknowledgments -- notes -- bibliography -- Index

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Named 'Top 6' South Asia studies publications of 2016 by the British Association for South Asian StudiesThe 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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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