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The Alchemy of Empire - Abject Materials and the Technologies of Colonialism (Paperback)
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The Alchemy of Empire - Abject Materials and the Technologies of Colonialism (Paperback)
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Named 'Top 6' South Asia studies publications of 2016 by the
British Association for South Asian Studies The Alchemy of Empire
unravels the non-European origins of Enlightenment science.
Focusing on the abject materials of empire-building, this study
traces the genealogies of substances like mud, mortar, ice, and
paper, as well as forms of knowledge like inoculation. Showing how
East India Company employees deployed the paradigm of alchemy in
order to make sense of the new worlds they confronted, Rajani Sudan
argues that the Enlightenment was born largely out of Europe's (and
Britain's) sense of insecurity and inferiority in the early modern
world. Plumbing the depths of the imperial archive, Sudan uncovers
the history of the British Enlightenment in the literary artifacts
of the long eighteenth century, from the correspondence of the East
India Company and the papers of the Royal Society to the poetry of
Alexander Pope and the novels of Jane Austen.
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