9780226476575 - terrestrial lessons: the conquest of the world as globe di ramaswamy, sumathi (16 risultati)

Condizione: Good. GOOD++ to V/G++ DJ/ LIKE NEW BOOK. 2017 University of Chicago Press larger hardecover, 1-5 number line. ISBN: from . Boards: Slight indentation across top spine; slight indentation bottom right spine( w/ widthwise faint scratch lower spine). Slight indentation upper front corner join. Near fine+/Fine w/ like new lettering. Text: LIKE NEW. DJ 1/16" surface crease lower front fore-edge corner. 1/3" vertical indentation/1/8"diagonal surface indentation near upper back spine. 1/8" crease near lower back spine. Widthwise slit 1/8" from bottom spine edge (appears cut w/ box-cutter, taped interior lower spine). GOOD++/V/G++ DJ w/ like new sheen.…

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Hardback. Condizione: New. Why and how do debates about the form and disposition of our Earth shape enlightened subjectivity and secular worldliness in colonial modernity? Sumathi Ramaswamy explores this question for British India with the aid of the terrestrial globe which since the sixteenth century has circulated as a worldly symbol, a scientific instrument, and not least an educational tool for inculcating planetary consciousness. In Terrestrial Lessons, Ramaswamy provides the first in-depth analysis of the globe's history in and impact on the Indian subcontinent during the colonial era and its aftermath. Drawing on a wide array of archival sources, she delineates its transformation from a thing of distinction possessed by elite men into that mass-produced commodity used in classrooms worldwide the humble school globe. Traversing the length and breadth of British India, Terrestrial Lessons is an unconventional history of this master object of pedagogical modernity that will fascinate historians of cartography, science, and Asian studies.…

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Hardback. Condizione: New. Why and how do debates about the form and disposition of our Earth shape enlightened subjectivity and secular worldliness in colonial modernity? Sumathi Ramaswamy explores this question for British India with the aid of the terrestrial globe which since the sixteenth century has circulated as a worldly symbol, a scientific instrument, and not least an educational tool for inculcating planetary consciousness. In Terrestrial Lessons, Ramaswamy provides the first in-depth analysis of the globe's history in and impact on the Indian subcontinent during the colonial era and its aftermath. Drawing on a wide array of archival sources, she delineates its transformation from a thing of distinction possessed by elite men into that mass-produced commodity used in classrooms worldwide the humble school globe. Traversing the length and breadth of British India, Terrestrial Lessons is an unconventional history of this master object of pedagogical modernity that will fascinate historians of cartography, science, and Asian studies.…