Towards a history of consumption in south Asia

This volume examines new ways of conceptualizing consumption historically in South Asia through a series of case studies on different commodities and consuming groups. INDICE: Acknowledgements, List of Illustrations, List of Tables; Introduction by Douglas E. Haynes and Abigail McGowan; 1.: The Consumption of British Manufactured Goods in India: A Prologue, 1765-1813 by H.V. Bowen; 2.: Growthof Small-scale Industries and Changes in Consumption Patterns in South India,1910s-50s by Haruka Yanagisawa; 3.: Consumption History of the Estado da India: 1850-1950 by Remy Dias; 4.: Consumption, Domestic Economy, and the Idea of the Middle Class in Late Colonial Bombay by Prashant Kidambi; 5.: At Home in the World: Cinema and Cultures of the Young in Bombay in the 1920s by Kaushik Bhaumik; 6.: Consuming Families: Negotiating Women's Shopping in Early Twentieth Century Western India by Abigail McGowan; 7.: Creating the Consumer? Advertising, Capitalism and the Middle Classes in Urban Western India, 1914-40 by Douglas E. Haynes; 8.: Honour, Desire, and Fashion: Textile Consumption in Northwest India and Pakistan by Michelle Maskiell; 10.:. Consumption and Craftsmanship in India, 1870-1940 by Tirthankar Roy; Notes on Contributors.

• ISBN: 978-0-19-806364-3
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 310
• Fecha Publicación: 11/03/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés