William J Glover
Biographic Data
| ID | 255859 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William J Glover |
| GIVEN NAMES | William J |
| FAMILY NAME | Glover |
| SIGNATURE | GLOVER W J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2908-5680 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
House but no Garden: Apartment Living in Bombay’s Suburbs, 1898–1964 by Nikhil Rao (review)
Reviewed by: House but no Garden: Apartment Living in Bombay’s Suburbs, 1898–1964 by Nikhil Rao Will Glover House but no Garden: Apartment Living in Bombay’s Suburbs, 1898–1964 By Nikhil Rao. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. The apartment building is such an ordinary and ubiquitous feature of every large city in South Asia today that, apparently, almost no one has contemplated its history. Until now, that is. According Nikhil Rao…
The troubled passage from ‘village communities’ to planned new town developments in mid-twentieth-century South Asia
This article begins with an examination of how rural and urban society in India were conceptualized in relation to one another at different moments during the twentieth century, arguing that rapid urbanization during the middle decades forced important changes in those conceptualizations. If in an earlier period analysts saw the world of the village dweller as radically separate from that of the urban dweller, then rapid urbanization destabilized…
Objects, Models, and Exemplary Works: Educating Sentiment in Colonial India
In 1918, NEAR THE CONCLUSION of the First World War, a British official in the Punjab provincial government suggested the use of ocular demonstrations in Lahore (the province's capital) to demonstrate the tangible benefits of British rule to the city's Indian residents. This measure was necessary, he argued, since Lahore's Indian pop ulation had grown increasingly skeptical of British intentions during the war. Accordingly, J. P. Thompson, chief …
A Feeling of Absence from Old England: ” The Colonial Bungalow
This article explores how the colonial bungalow provided a setting for attempting to bridge perceived distances between English home life and its corollary in colonial India. At the same time, the article suggests that the bungalow gave presence to a kind of “Indian-ness,” a social and material presence that produced anxiety in its European occupants. On the one hand, as the primary realm of English domesticity in India the bungalow provided a se…
A Prehistoric Bow Fragment from Drumwhinny Bog, Kesh, Co. Fermanagh
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The troubled passage from ‘village communities’ to planned new town developments in mid-twentieth-century South Asia
This article begins with an examination of how rural and urban society in India were conceptualized in relation to one another at different moments during the twentieth century, arguing that rapid urbanization during the middle decades forced important changes in those conceptualizations. If in an earlier period analysts saw the world of the village dweller as radically separate from that of the urban dweller, then rapid urbanization destabilized…
Objects, Models, and Exemplary Works: Educating Sentiment in Colonial India
In 1918, NEAR THE CONCLUSION of the First World War, a British official in the Punjab provincial government suggested the use of ocular demonstrations in Lahore (the province's capital) to demonstrate the tangible benefits of British rule to the city's Indian residents. This measure was necessary, he argued, since Lahore's Indian pop ulation had grown increasingly skeptical of British intentions during the war. Accordingly, J. P. Thompson, chief …
A Prehistoric Bow Fragment from Drumwhinny Bog, Kesh, Co. Fermanagh
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A Feeling of Absence from Old England: ” The Colonial Bungalow
This article explores how the colonial bungalow provided a setting for attempting to bridge perceived distances between English home life and its corollary in colonial India. At the same time, the article suggests that the bungalow gave presence to a kind of “Indian-ness,” a social and material presence that produced anxiety in its European occupants. On the one hand, as the primary realm of English domesticity in India the bungalow provided a se…
A Prehistoric Bow Fragment from Drumwhinny Bog, Kesh, Co. Fermanagh
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A Feeling of Absence from Old England: ” The Colonial Bungalow
This article explores how the colonial bungalow provided a setting for attempting to bridge perceived distances between English home life and its corollary in colonial India. At the same time, the article suggests that the bungalow gave presence to a kind of “Indian-ness,” a social and material presence that produced anxiety in its European occupants. On the one hand, as the primary realm of English domesticity in India the bungalow provided a se…
Objects, Models, and Exemplary Works: Educating Sentiment in Colonial India
In 1918, NEAR THE CONCLUSION of the First World War, a British official in the Punjab provincial government suggested the use of ocular demonstrations in Lahore (the province's capital) to demonstrate the tangible benefits of British rule to the city's Indian residents. This measure was necessary, he argued, since Lahore's Indian pop ulation had grown increasingly skeptical of British intentions during the war. Accordingly, J. P. Thompson, chief …
The troubled passage from ‘village communities’ to planned new town developments in mid-twentieth-century South Asia
This article begins with an examination of how rural and urban society in India were conceptualized in relation to one another at different moments during the twentieth century, arguing that rapid urbanization during the middle decades forced important changes in those conceptualizations. If in an earlier period analysts saw the world of the village dweller as radically separate from that of the urban dweller, then rapid urbanization destabilized…
House but no Garden: Apartment Living in Bombay’s Suburbs, 1898–1964 by Nikhil Rao (review)
Reviewed by: House but no Garden: Apartment Living in Bombay’s Suburbs, 1898–1964 by Nikhil Rao Will Glover House but no Garden: Apartment Living in Bombay’s Suburbs, 1898–1964 By Nikhil Rao. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. The apartment building is such an ordinary and ubiquitous feature of every large city in South Asia today that, apparently, almost no one has contemplated its history. Until now, that is. According Nikhil Rao…
Sociology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · History (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Anthropology (1 works)