Terrestrial Lessons: The Conquest of the World as Globe

by Sumathi Ramaswamy

Why and how do debates about the form and disposition of our Earth shape enlightened subjectivity and secular worldliness in colonial modernity? Sumathi Ramaswamy explores this question for British India with the aid of the terrestrial globe, which since the sixteenth century has circulated as a worldly symbol, a scientific instrument, and not least an educational tool for inculcating planetary consciousness.

In Terrestrial Lessons,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022647657X
• ISBN13: 9780226476575
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.2" x 10.3"