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STONES OF EMPIRE
THE BUILDINGS OF THE RAJ |
| By: |
Jan Morris |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£32.49 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0192805967 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780192805966 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
12 May, 2005 |
| Pages: |
244 |
| Description: |
Stones of Empire brings together two leading authors in a very personal investigation of the British architectural legacy in India. The text and photographs illustrate the buildings both as objects and as reflections of an empire's mingled emotions, charting a unique enterprise in architecture, engineering, and social adaptation. |
| Synopsis: |
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 a new 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. |
| Illustrations: |
numerous halftones |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
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