Format:
Online-Ressource (xxviii, 258 p)
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ill., maps
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26 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2008 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0816650217
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9780816653959
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0816650225
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9780816650217
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9780816650224
Content:
William J. Glover investigates the traditions that shaped colonial Lahore, focusing on the conviction that both British and Indian actors who implemented urbanization shared: that the material fabric of the city could lead to social and moral improvement.Glover reveals that urban change in colonial India was not a monolithic process and establishes Lahore as a key site for understanding the genealogy of modern global urbanism
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 An Urban Palimpsest: The Precolonial Development of Lahore; 2 A Colonial Spatial Imagination: British Knowledge of the City and Its Environs; 3 Collaborations: Building an Elite Landscape in Lahore's Civil Station; 4 Changing Houses: Rethinking and Rebuilding Townhouses and Neighborhoods; 5 Anxieties at Home: The Disquieting British Bungalow; 6 Thinking with the City: Urban Writing in Colonial Lahore; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816650217
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Making Lahore Modern : Constructing and Imagining a Colonial City
Language:
English
Keywords:
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Electronic books
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