Everyday Technology (Paperback)

Everyday Technology is a pioneering account of how small machines and consumer goods that originated in Europe and North America became objects of everyday use in India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rather than investigate "big" technologies such as railways and irrigation projects, Arnold examines the assimilation and appropriation of bicycles, rice mills, sewing machines, and typewriters in India, and follows their impact on the ways in which people worked and travelled, the clothes they wore, and the kind of food they ate. But the effects of these machines were not limited to the daily rituals of Indian society, and Arnold demonstrates how such small-scale technologies became integral to new ways of thinking about class, race, and gender, as well as about the politics of colonial rule and Indian nationhood.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2015
Authors:	David Arnold
Dimensions:	139 x 217 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-26937-5
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > History of engineering & technology Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Industrial history Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Industrial history Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
LSN:	0-226-26937-X
Barcode:	9780226269375

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