| Terrestrial Lessons: The Conquest of the World as Globe Contributor(s): Ramaswamy, Sumathi (Author) |
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ISBN: 022647657X ISBN-13: 9780226476575 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $47.52 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - India & South Asia - Technology & Engineering | Cartography - Science | Earth Sciences - Geography |
| Dewey: 910.020 |
| LCCN: 2016057345 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 7.2" W x 10.3" (2.10 lbs) 416 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Indian - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ramaswamy, Sumathi: - Sumathi Ramaswamy is professor of history at Duke University in North Carolina. |