Stones of empire the buildings of the Raj

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 arr...

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Sonraí Bibleagrafaíochta
Príomhúdar: Morris, Jan
Údair Eile: Jan Morris; Simon Winchester
Teanga:Undetermined
English
Foilsithe: Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2005
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Thư viện lưu trữ: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh
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Achoimre: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
Cur Síos Fisiciúil:234 p.
ill.
26 cm
ISBN:0192805967
9780192805966