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Steamboats on the Indus
Clive Dewey
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Description for Steamboats on the Indus
Hardcover. Num Pages: 360 pages, 14 colour & 45 b/w. BIC Classification: 1FM; HBJF; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 288 x 224 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1342.
Two forms of water-transport competed for supremacy on the Indus and its tributaries in the middle of the nineteenth century: the local country boats and the steamboats imported by the British. The steamers were the most advanced technology in South Asia. British investors poured capital into them, colonial officials subsidised them, and European travellers patronized them. The country boats-blown by the winds, rowed by the oars, dragged by ropes-had hardly changed in a thousand years. Yet the country boats kept the river trade while the steam flotillas went bankrupt. They were far better adapted to the shallow, shifting ... Read more
Two forms of water-transport competed for supremacy on the Indus and its tributaries in the middle of the nineteenth century: the local country boats and the steamboats imported by the British. The steamers were the most advanced technology in South Asia. British investors poured capital into them, colonial officials subsidised them, and European travellers patronized them. The country boats-blown by the winds, rowed by the oars, dragged by ropes-had hardly changed in a thousand years. Yet the country boats kept the river trade while the steam flotillas went bankrupt. They were far better adapted to the shallow, shifting ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
OUP India India
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
New Delhi, India
ISBN
9780198092193
SKU
V9780198092193
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Ref
99-6
About Clive Dewey
Clive Dewey is Emeritus Reader at University of Leicester. He has also been Visiting Fellow/Professor at the University of Cambridge, University of Heidelberg, and Leiden University.
Reviews for Steamboats on the Indus
Dewey's meticulously researched account of the Indus steamboats is entertaining, ironic and scholarly. he demonstrates convincingly that, while steam technology had an almost magical hold over the Victorian imagination, in the Indus that technology met its match.
David Arnold, The Times Literary Supplement
The book by Clive Dewey is a fresh attempt to look at the layered past ... Read more
David Arnold, The Times Literary Supplement
The book by Clive Dewey is a fresh attempt to look at the layered past ... Read more