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Metallic modern : everyday machines in colonial Sri Lanka / Nira Wickramasinghe.

Title
Metallic modern : everyday machines in colonial Sri Lanka / Nira Wickramasinghe.
Author
Wickramasinghe, Nira.
Publication
New York : Berghahn Books, 2014.

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Description
x, 181 pages ; illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Industries > History. > Sri Lanka
  • Consumption (Economics) > Sri Lanka
  • Civilization, Modern
  • Civilization, Modern
  • Consumption (Economics)
  • Industries > Social aspects
  • Sri Lanka
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-173) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
List of illustrations -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Exploring Sri Lanka's modern : multiple loops of belonging -- Following the Singer sewing machine : fashioning a market in a British crown colony -- Creating a market imaginary -- Paths to a Buddhist modern : from Siam to America -- The gramophone : soulful sounds and sacred speeches -- An Asian modern : Japan -- Trams, cars, bicycles : modern machines in the city -- A tailor's tale and machines in the home -- Working like machines -- Conclusion: metallic modern -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
ISBN
  • 9781782382423 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 1782382429 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9781782382430 (institutional ebook) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2013017853
OCLC
841893022
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library