Calcutta

Calcutta
Author: Tanika Sarkar
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 587
Release: 2017-07-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351581716

Politics and culture are organically related in the city of Calcutta. The period (1940s to 1950s), was chaotic and turbulent, yet, this was also a time of significant creativity in literature, art, films and music in the city. This is an unusual feature of any city but is interestingly characteristic of Calcutta. The originality of the work lies in blending poetry with historical writing, retaining the essence of both forms against the backdrop of the tumultuous events of the critical decades, as against the entire historical period of a city. This historical method together with twenty-one papers give the reader a sense of the pulse of this complex city ‘emerging creatively and chaotically from its colonial past’.

RIBA Journal

RIBA Journal
Author: Royal Institute of British Architects
Publisher:
Total Pages: 856
Release: 1914
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Proceedings

Proceedings
Author: Institution of Municipal Engineers (Great Britain)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 958
Release: 1914
Genre: Municipal engineering
ISBN:

Patrick Geddes

Patrick Geddes
Author: Helen Meller
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2005-08-02
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1134849281

This recent analysis of Patrick Geddes' life and work reviews his ideas and philosophy of planning, providing a scholarly yet accessible account for students of the history of planning, urban design, social theory and British history.

Imperial Contagions

Imperial Contagions
Author: Robert Peckham
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9888139126

Imperial Contagions argues that there was no straightforward shift from older, enclavist models of colonial medicine to a newer emphasis on prevention and treatment of disease among indigenous populations as well as European residents. It shows that colonial medicine was not at all homogeneous "on the ground" but was riven with tensions and contradictions. Indigenous elites contested and appropriated Western medical knowledge and practices for their own purposes. Colonial policies contained contradictory and cross-cutting impulses. This book challenges assumptions that colonial regimes were uniformly able to regulate indigenous bodies and that colonial medicine served as a "tool of empire."