Empires of the Senses: Bodily Encounters in Imperial India and the Philippines

ISBN-13: 9780190924706 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 392 str.

Andrew J. Rotter

Recenzje

In this innovative contribution to comparative colonial history Andy Rotter opens up empire to the history of the senses. One of the joys of the book is that he is alive to the tragi-comic nature of the imperialist attempt to 'civilize' the vibrant sensory world of India and the Philippines. Empires of the Senses convincingly makes the case that the senses were central to the project of building and resisting an empire and will become essential reading for anyone seeking to deepen their understanding of the colonial experience.

O autorze

Andrew J. Rotter is Charles A. Dana Professor of History at Colgate University. A past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, he is the author of Hiroshima: The World's Bomb (OUP, 2008), Comrades at Odds: Culture and Indo-U.S. Relations, 1947-1964, and The Path to Vietnam.