Empires of the senses : bodily encounters in imperial India and the Philippines /
"This groundbreaking work offers a sensory history of the British in India from the formal imposition of their rule to its end (1857-1947) and the Americans in the Philippines from annexation to independence (1898-1946). A social and cultural history of empire, it analyzes how the senses create...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : embodied empires
- The senses and civilization
- Fighting : war and empire's onset
- Governing : subjects and states envisioned
- Educating : new soundscapes
- Sanitizing : the campaigns against odor
- Touching, feeling, and healing : hapticity and the hazards of contact
- Nourishing : imperial foodways
- Conclusion : the senses at empire's end.
