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In the club: Associational life in colonial South Asia (Studies in Imperialism MUP)
Benjamin Cohen
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Description for In the club: Associational life in colonial South Asia (Studies in Imperialism MUP)
Hardcover. A comprehensive examination of social clubs across South Asia Series Editor(s): Thompson, Andrew; MacKenzie, John. Series: Studies in Imperialism. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations, black & white|Line drawings, black & white. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; JFSV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 21. Weight in Grams: 488.
In the club presents a comprehensive examination of social clubs across South Asia, arguing for clubs as key contributors to South Asia's colonial associational life and civil society. Using government records, personal memoirs, private club records, and club histories themselves, In the club explores colonial club life with chapters arranged thematically: the legal underpinnings of clubs; their physical locations and compositions; their financial health; the role of servants and staff as employees of clubs; issues of race and class in clubs; women's clubs; and finally clubs in their postcolonial milieus. This book will be critical reading for scholars of South ... Read more
In the club presents a comprehensive examination of social clubs across South Asia, arguing for clubs as key contributors to South Asia's colonial associational life and civil society. Using government records, personal memoirs, private club records, and club histories themselves, In the club explores colonial club life with chapters arranged thematically: the legal underpinnings of clubs; their physical locations and compositions; their financial health; the role of servants and staff as employees of clubs; issues of race and class in clubs; women's clubs; and finally clubs in their postcolonial milieus. This book will be critical reading for scholars of South ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Studies in Imperialism
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719096051
SKU
V9780719096051
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Ref
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About Benjamin Cohen
Benjamin B. Cohen is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Utah Benjamin B. Cohen is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Utah -- .
Reviews for In the club: Associational life in colonial South Asia (Studies in Imperialism MUP)
'Hopefully, scholars currently working on clubs around the British Empire will have the advantage of Cohen's work, which demonstrates the ways that clubs can reveal facts about the private life of the British Empire and details about civil society in South Asia.' AMY MILNE-SMITH, Wilfrid Laurier University, American Historical Review 'The volume will be a useful ... Read more