Yankee India

Bean, Susan S.

ISBN 10: 1890206296 / ISBN 13: 9781890206291

Verlag: Mapin Publishing Pvt, 2006

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Using mariners' logs, journals, letters, business papers and Indian commodities and curiosities brought home as gifts and mementos, Susan Bean presents a readable, scholarly and visually opulent study of material and cultural exchange. It is a beautifully illustrated story of America's "commerce" with the subcontinent after independence from Britain in 1783. This is not only a question of trade but also the opening out of channels of influence in religion, culture and social mores. It is a valuable account of American orientalism which brought the Gita to New England.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Susan S Bean is Curator of South Asian and Korean Art and Culture at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts. Dr Bean specialises in the visual arts and cultural history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Asia. Dr Bean received her doctorate in anthropology from Columbia University, and has taught at Yale, Columbia, and Brown Universities, and Wellesley College.

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Titel: Yankee India
Verlag: Mapin Publishing Pvt
Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket