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Metallic Modern: Everyday Machines in Colonial Sri Lanka
Nira Wickramasinghe
Metallic Modern: Everyday Machines in Colonial Sri Lanka
Nira Wickramasinghe
Everyday life in the Crown colony of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) was characterized by a direct encounter of people with modernity through the consumption and use of foreign machines - in particular, the Singer sewing machine, but also the gramophone, tramway, bicycle and varieties of industrial equipment.
176 pages, 20 ills
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | 2014 |
ISBN13 | 9781782382423 |
Publishers | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 192 |
Dimensions | 158 × 230 × 16 mm · 416 g |
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