Asian Britain: A Photographic History - Brossura

Nasta, Susheila

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ISBN 10: 1908906111 ISBN 13: 9781908906113

Casa editrice: Westbourne Press, 2013

Riassunto

This extraordinary photographic history draws upon culture, film, music, the military, business, the suffragist movement and the different phases of historic settlement of Asian migrants from the subcontinent, the Caribbean
and East Africa. Asian Britain vividly charts Britain’s process of coming to terms with the historic realities of its culturally diverse past and present.

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Recensione:

'Celebrates the long, and sometimes surprising, history of Asian people in the UK ... Susheila Nasta s Asian Britain records an untold social history ... Poignant.' Guardian

'Fascinating - [This] breathtaking book sets out to chart a fascinating and important untold social history.' Daily Mail

'[Susheila Nasta's] new book, Asian Britain: A Photographic History is much in keeping with her earlier work, over three hundred pages of beautifully reproduced, often rare, illustrations with an accompanying explanatory text, introduced by BBC correspondent Razia Iqbal ... There is much here for both the student of British colonial and social history and for the general reader; the book doubles neatly as a source book for the former and an attractive coffee table book for the latter ... The historical record that Nasta illustrates is longer than most of us realise. Her book contains fascinating portraits of Indians who settled in Britain from the 18th Century onwards, whether as families or servants of returning British nabobs, as sailors lascars on British ships, or as enterprising individuals, such as Sake Dean Mahomed, who opened Mahomed's Vapour Baths in Brighton in 1821 and became King George IV's shampooing surgeon ... A timely new account.' --Asian Review of Books

'[Susheila Nasta s] new book, Asian Britain: A Photographic History is much in keeping with her earlier work, over three hundred pages of beautifully reproduced, often rare, illustrations with an accompanying explanatory text, introduced by BBC correspondent Razia Iqbal ... There is much here for both the student of British colonial and social history and for the general reader; the book doubles neatly as a source book for the former and an attractive coffee table book for the latter ... The historical record that Nasta illustrates is longer than most of us realise. Her book contains fascinating portraits of Indians who settled in Britain from the 18th Century onwards, whether as families or servants of returning British nabobs, as sailors lascars on British ships, or as enterprising individuals, such as Sake Dean Mahomed, who opened Mahomed s Vapour Baths in Brighton in 1821 and became King George IV s shampooing surgeon ... A timely new account.' --Asian Review of Books

L'autore:

Susheila Nasta: Susheila Nasta MBE is editor-in-chief of the internationally distinguished literary magazine, Wasafiri. Currently Professor of Modern Literature at the Open University, she has published widely on the black and South Asian diasporas. Since 2007, Nasta has been Director of a major
interdisciplinary research project on Asian Britain.

Florian Stadtler: Florian Stadtler is Lecturer in Global Literature at the University of Exeter. He has published on South Asian cinema, history and writing.

Razia Iqbal: Razia Iqbal is a presenter for Newshour on the BBC World Service and for Talking Books on the BBC News Channel.

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• Editore: Westbourne Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1908906111
• ISBN 13: 9781908906113
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320