This book investigates RammohunRoy as a transnational celebrity. It examines ...This book investigates Rammohun Roy as a transnational celebrity. It examines the role of religious heterodoxy - particularly Christian Unitarianism - in transforming a colonial outsider into an imagined member of the emerging Victorian social order...more
This book investigates RammohunRoy as a transnational celebrity. It examines ...This book investigates Rammohun Roy as a transnational celebrity. It examines the role of religious heterodoxy - particularly Christian Unitarianism - in transforming a colonial outsider into an imagined member of the emerging Victorian social order...more
Music has been neglected by imperial historians but this book shows that music...Music has been neglected by imperial historians but this book shows that music is an essential aspect of identity formation and cross-cultural exchange. It explores the ways in which rational moral and aesthetic motives underlying the...more
Music has been neglected by imperial historians but this book shows that music...Music has been neglected by imperial historians but this book shows that music is an essential aspect of identity formation and cross-cultural exchange. It explores the ways in which rational moral and aesthetic motives underlying the...more
Religious Transactions in Colonial South India locates themakingof Protestan...Religious Transactions in Colonial South India locates the making of Protestant identities in South India within several contesting discourses. It examines evolving attitudes to translation and translation practices in the Tamil literary and sacred...more
This book examines fictional representations of India in novels plays and poet...This book examines fictional representations of India in novels plays and poetry produced between the years 1772 to 1823 as historical source material. It uses literary texts as case studies to investigate how Britons residing both in the metropole...more
Music has been neglected by imperial historians but this book shows that music...Music has been neglected by imperial historians but this book shows that music is an essential aspect of identity formation and cross-cultural exchange. It explores the ways in which rational moral and aesthetic motives underlying the...more
Religious Transactions in Colonial South India locates themakingof Protestan...Religious Transactions in Colonial South India locates the making of Protestant identities in South India within several contesting discourses. It examines evolving attitudes to translation and translation practices in the Tamil literary and sacred...more
The book explores the hotly disputed process by which the census was created a...The book explores the hotly disputed process by which the census was created and developed and examines how a wide cast of characters including statisticians novelists national and local officials political and social reformers and journalists...more
This book traces this German idea of freedom from the late Enlightenment throu...This book traces this German idea of freedom from the late Enlightenment through the early twentieth century. McGrath shows how German intellectual and artists invoked the ancient Greeks in order to inspire Germans to cultural renewal and to enrich...more
This book traces this German idea of freedom from the late Enlightenment throu...This book traces this German idea of freedom from the late Enlightenment through the early twentieth century. McGrath shows how German intellectual and artists invoked the ancient Greeks in order to inspire Germans to cultural renewal and to enrich...more
Szefel investigates the use of poetry in addressing political reform at the tu...Szefel investigates the use of poetry in addressing political reform at the turn of the twentieth century. It charts the work of poets and editors - many of whom were women and minorities - who created a network of organizations to nurture writers...more
Religious Transactions in Colonial South India locates themakingof Protestan...Religious Transactions in Colonial South India locates the making of Protestant identities in South India within several contesting discourses. It examines evolving attitudes to translation and translation practices in the Tamil literary and sacred...more
This book explores the French Enlightenment s use of cross-cultural comparison...This book explores the French Enlightenment s use of cross-cultural comparisons - particularly the figures of the Chinese mandarin and American and Polynesian savage - to praise of critique aspects of European society and to draw general conclusions...more
Carl Gustav Jung has always been a popular but never a fashionable thinker. Hi...Carl Gustav Jung has always been a popular but never a fashionable thinker. His ground-breaking theories about dream interpretation and psychological types have often been overshadowed by allegations that he was anti-Semitic and a Nazi sympathizer....more