The Other Empire: Metropolis, India and Progress in the Colonial Imagination

by John Marriott

This is a detailed study of the various ways in which London and India were imaginatively constructed by British observers during the nineteenth century. This process took place within a unified field of knowledge that brought together travel and evangelical accounts to exert a formative influence on the creation of London and India for the domestic reading public. Their distinct narratives, rhetoric and chronologies forged homologies between representations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719080479
• ISBN13: 9780719080470
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"