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Description for Stones of Empire
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 244 pages, numerous halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKA; AM; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 190 x 15. Weight in Grams: 478.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
244
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780192805966
SKU
V9780192805966
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Ref
99-1
About Jan Morris
Jan Morris, hailed by Rebecca West as 'perhaps the best descriptive writer of our times', and by Alastair Cooke as the 'Flaubert of the jet age', is the author of numerous best-selling works on places, travel, and history, including Pax Britannica, Venice, and Fifty Years of Europe: An Album. Simon Winchester is the author of the bestsellers The Meaning ... Read more
Reviews for Stones of Empire
Review from previous edition '...magical prose and marvellous photographs'
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