Spatial imaginings in the age of colonial cartographic reason: maps, landscapes, travelogues in britain and india
Auteur :
Mukherjee, Nilanjana
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9780367505745
Date de publication :
25 sept. 2023
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
580 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This volume explores how India as a geographical space was constructed by the British colonial regime in visual and material terms. It sheds light on the primary dominanceof cartographic reason in the age of European Enlightenment which framed aesthetic and scientific modes of representations and imaginations.