Stones of Empire: Buildings of the Raj [Idioma Inglés] - Tapa dura

Morris, Jan

 
9780192114495: Stones of Empire: Buildings of the Raj [Idioma Inglés]
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ISBN 10: 0192114492 ISBN 13: 9780192114495
Editorial: Oxford University Press, 1983

Sinopsis

No empire in history built so variously as the British empire in India. The buildings there attest to the richness of an imperial presence that lasted--from the first trading settlement to the end of the Raj--some three hundred years. The attitude of the British to India was compounded partly of arrogance, but partly also of homesickness, and it shows in their constructions. Georgian terraces were adapted to tropical conditions, Victorian railway stations were elaborately orientalized, seaside villas were adjusted to suit Himalayan conditions, and everywhere the fundamental ambivalence of the British empire, a baffling mixture of good and evil, was mirrored in the imperial architecture. This book, now reissued with an introduction by Simon Winchester, was the first to describe the whole range of British constructions in India. The text and photographs illustrate these buildings not simply as physical objects, but as reflections of an empire's mingled emotions. Stones of Empire charts an enterprise in architecture, engineering, and social adaptation unique in human history.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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Jan Morris is an Honorary Fellow of the University College of Wales. Her many publications include Venice, The Pax Brittania Trilogy, The Oxford Book of Oxford, and The Matter of Wales. Simon Winchester is the author of the bestsellers The Map That Changed the World, The Professor and the Madman, and Krakatoa.

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Editorial
Oxford University Press
Año de publicación
1983
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0192114492
ISBN 13 
9780192114495
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
240
Editor
With Photographs By Simon Winchester
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9780192805966: Stones of Empire: The Buildings of the Raj [Idioma Inglés]

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ISBN 10:  0192805967 ISBN 13:  9780192805966
Editorial: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2005
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