A deeply researched study, this book offers the first sensory history of the British empire in India and the United States in the Philippines, reflecting on how senses structured the colonizers' perception of the colonized (and vice versa) and impacted the British and American imperial projects.
A deeply researched study, this book offers the first sensory history of the British empire in India and the United States in the Philippines, reflecting on how senses structured the colonizers' perception of the colonized (and vice versa) and impacted the British and American imperial projects.
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.
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Acknowledgments Introduction : Embodied Empires Chapter 1: The Senses and Civilization Chapter 2: Fighting: War and Empire's Onset Chapter 3: Governing: Subjects and States Envisioned Chapter 4: Educating: New Soundscapes Chapter 5: Sanitizing: The Campaigns against Odor Chapter 6: Touching, Feeling, and Healing: Hapticity and the Hazards of Contact Chapter 7: Nourishing: Imperial Foodways Conclusion: The Senses at Empire's End Notes Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Introduction : Embodied Empires Chapter 1: The Senses and Civilization Chapter 2: Fighting: War and Empire's Onset Chapter 3: Governing: Subjects and States Envisioned Chapter 4: Educating: New Soundscapes Chapter 5: Sanitizing: The Campaigns against Odor Chapter 6: Touching, Feeling, and Healing: Hapticity and the Hazards of Contact Chapter 7: Nourishing: Imperial Foodways Conclusion: The Senses at Empire's End Notes Bibliography Index
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