Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future

Unearthing the Past to Forge the FutureFor much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the British East India Company consolidated its rule over India, evolving from a trading venture to a colonial administrative force. Yet its territorial gains far outpaced its understanding of the region and the people who lived there, and its desperate efforts to gain knowledge of the area led to the 1815 appointment of army officer Colin Mackenzie as the first Surveyor General of India. This

as contributors consider ongoing formations of place

Between 1954 and 1962

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wisely lapt in philosophic torpor

Divided into three parts--youth in general

and reveal the ways in which material and visual culture can serve to voice protest and formulate social critique

in light of the standards movement

bookselling and the dynamics of the trade

Eudora Welty's short fiction

who participated in and influenced the twentieth-century renaissance of printmaking in Japan

in the face of a largely neglectful government

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