Ian J Kerr
Biographic Data
| ID | 533945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian J Kerr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian J |
| FAMILY NAME | Kerr |
| SIGNATURE | KERR I J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5941-8610 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Caminhos de ferro e desenvolvimento econômico na Índia e em Portugal
No final do século XIX, Portugal empreendeu a construção de dois caminhos de ferro de bitola reduzida na província continental de Trás-os-Montes e no domínio colonial de Goa, na Índia, dois territórios subdesenvolvidos sob soberania portuguesa. Ambos eram aplicações práticas do programa português de grandes obras públicas, conhecido historicamente como Fontismo, o qual propunha a angariação de capital nos mercados internacionais e sua aplicação n…
The Transfer of Railway Technologies and Afro-Asian Labor Processes within the British Empire
The transfer of railway technology within the British Empire, and particularly to India provides the focus for this paper that explores—conceptually, historiographically and substantively—what was transferred and how that transfer took place. Drawing upon the large-scale technical system literature and labor history the paper highlights various kinds and levels of transfer agents working through, albeit in an often-contested fashion, Afro-Asian l…
Edward M. Spiers, Engines for Empire. The Victorian Army and its Use of Railways
Colonial India, its Railways, and the Cliometricians
Railways lend themselves to enumeration. Much of what railways are or do can be counted, and statistical analysis has long been a central tool in the management of railway systems. From the accumulations of numerical data associated with reconnaissance and final surveys through the details of construction and onward to the cornucopia of numbers associated with every detail of railway operation the numbers pile up and, in many jurisdictions, remai…
India's Railway History
India has had operating railways for well-over 150 years: railways that have played a central and well-documented role in the making of India in the colonial and post-colonial eras. This handbook provides a reference guide for researchers interested in almost any facet of the history, colonial and post-colonial, of these railways. The secondary literature is identified and surveyed, primary sources and their locations identified, statistical and …
On the Move
In 1770 a British official in Madras observed groups composed of men, women, and children who formed “a kind of travelling community of their own under a species of Government peculiar to themselves, with laws and customs which they follow and observe wherever they go”. These itinerant, coveted groups of earth and stone workers – “even courted by Princes” – circulated from worksite to worksite where they dug tanks (small reservoirs), ditches, and…
Labour control and labour legislation in colonial India
Labour law in nineteenth century colonial India was limited in amount and scope.1 The legislation that was enacted often reflected the centuries‐old English law of master and servant, forms of whic
Representation and Representations of the Railways of Colonial and Post-Colonial South Asia
This paper offers a preliminary exploration of the multi-faceted ways in which the railways of South Asia have been represented in textual, aural and visual media. I do this despite my reservations about some representational-type studies presented via language and theories I find opaque. Nonetheless, I do want to signal that I am not a closed-minded trainspotter; I am not one of those railway historians a reviewer of Michael Freeman's Railways a…
Railways in modern India
Part of the Themes in Indian History series, this valuable book reprints important writings on India's railway history. A substantial introduction places the sections in their historical and historiographical contexts, while the body of the work identifies neglected topics and outlines a new approach to the study of Indian railways. It will greatly appeal to scholars and students as well as to the general reader of Indian history
The Labour History of South Asia, 1989-1999
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Return to Empire
Building the Railways of the Raj, 1850-1900
Colonialism and Technological Choice
To what extent was technological choice within colonial countries deter-mined by requirements or expectations that emanated from interests located within the metropolitan powers? The quick answer, supported by a number of case studies, is that the colonial connection played a major role. The same case studies, however, demonstrate how complex and nuanced the determinants of particular technological choices in particular colonies at particular tim…
The City as Text
"The City as Text: The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in the Kandyan Kingdom, by James S. Duncan." Canadian Journal of History, 26(1), pp. 150–151
The Expedient Utopian
Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Punjab and the Raj, 1849-1947
Imperial Rule in Punjab, 1818-1881
British relationships with the Golden Temple,1849-90
Constructing railways in India—an estimate of the numbers employed, 1850-80
The Partition of the Punjab
Representation and Representations of the Railways of Colonial and Post-Colonial South Asia
This paper offers a preliminary exploration of the multi-faceted ways in which the railways of South Asia have been represented in textual, aural and visual media. I do this despite my reservations about some representational-type studies presented via language and theories I find opaque. Nonetheless, I do want to signal that I am not a closed-minded trainspotter; I am not one of those railway historians a reviewer of Michael Freeman's Railways a…
On the Move
In 1770 a British official in Madras observed groups composed of men, women, and children who formed “a kind of travelling community of their own under a species of Government peculiar to themselves, with laws and customs which they follow and observe wherever they go”. These itinerant, coveted groups of earth and stone workers – “even courted by Princes” – circulated from worksite to worksite where they dug tanks (small reservoirs), ditches, and…
India's Railway History
India has had operating railways for well-over 150 years: railways that have played a central and well-documented role in the making of India in the colonial and post-colonial eras. This handbook provides a reference guide for researchers interested in almost any facet of the history, colonial and post-colonial, of these railways. The secondary literature is identified and surveyed, primary sources and their locations identified, statistical and …
British relationships with the Golden Temple,1849-90
Constructing railways in India—an estimate of the numbers employed, 1850-80
Caminhos de ferro e desenvolvimento econômico na Índia e em Portugal
No final do século XIX, Portugal empreendeu a construção de dois caminhos de ferro de bitola reduzida na província continental de Trás-os-Montes e no domínio colonial de Goa, na Índia, dois territórios subdesenvolvidos sob soberania portuguesa. Ambos eram aplicações práticas do programa português de grandes obras públicas, conhecido historicamente como Fontismo, o qual propunha a angariação de capital nos mercados internacionais e sua aplicação n…
Labour control and labour legislation in colonial India
Labour law in nineteenth century colonial India was limited in amount and scope.1 The legislation that was enacted often reflected the centuries‐old English law of master and servant, forms of whic
The Partition of the Punjab
Constructing railways in India—an estimate of the numbers employed, 1850-80
British relationships with the Golden Temple,1849-90
Imperial Rule in Punjab, 1818-1881
Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Punjab and the Raj, 1849-1947
The City as Text
"The City as Text: The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in the Kandyan Kingdom, by James S. Duncan." Canadian Journal of History, 26(1), pp. 150–151
The Expedient Utopian
Colonialism and Technological Choice
To what extent was technological choice within colonial countries deter-mined by requirements or expectations that emanated from interests located within the metropolitan powers? The quick answer, supported by a number of case studies, is that the colonial connection played a major role. The same case studies, however, demonstrate how complex and nuanced the determinants of particular technological choices in particular colonies at particular tim…
Return to Empire
Building the Railways of the Raj, 1850-1900
The Labour History of South Asia, 1989-1999
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Railways in modern India
Part of the Themes in Indian History series, this valuable book reprints important writings on India's railway history. A substantial introduction places the sections in their historical and historiographical contexts, while the body of the work identifies neglected topics and outlines a new approach to the study of Indian railways. It will greatly appeal to scholars and students as well as to the general reader of Indian history
Representation and Representations of the Railways of Colonial and Post-Colonial South Asia
This paper offers a preliminary exploration of the multi-faceted ways in which the railways of South Asia have been represented in textual, aural and visual media. I do this despite my reservations about some representational-type studies presented via language and theories I find opaque. Nonetheless, I do want to signal that I am not a closed-minded trainspotter; I am not one of those railway historians a reviewer of Michael Freeman's Railways a…
Labour control and labour legislation in colonial India
Labour law in nineteenth century colonial India was limited in amount and scope.1 The legislation that was enacted often reflected the centuries‐old English law of master and servant, forms of whic
On the Move
In 1770 a British official in Madras observed groups composed of men, women, and children who formed “a kind of travelling community of their own under a species of Government peculiar to themselves, with laws and customs which they follow and observe wherever they go”. These itinerant, coveted groups of earth and stone workers – “even courted by Princes” – circulated from worksite to worksite where they dug tanks (small reservoirs), ditches, and…
India's Railway History
India has had operating railways for well-over 150 years: railways that have played a central and well-documented role in the making of India in the colonial and post-colonial eras. This handbook provides a reference guide for researchers interested in almost any facet of the history, colonial and post-colonial, of these railways. The secondary literature is identified and surveyed, primary sources and their locations identified, statistical and …
Colonial India, its Railways, and the Cliometricians
Railways lend themselves to enumeration. Much of what railways are or do can be counted, and statistical analysis has long been a central tool in the management of railway systems. From the accumulations of numerical data associated with reconnaissance and final surveys through the details of construction and onward to the cornucopia of numbers associated with every detail of railway operation the numbers pile up and, in many jurisdictions, remai…
Edward M. Spiers, Engines for Empire. The Victorian Army and its Use of Railways
The Transfer of Railway Technologies and Afro-Asian Labor Processes within the British Empire
The transfer of railway technology within the British Empire, and particularly to India provides the focus for this paper that explores—conceptually, historiographically and substantively—what was transferred and how that transfer took place. Drawing upon the large-scale technical system literature and labor history the paper highlights various kinds and levels of transfer agents working through, albeit in an often-contested fashion, Afro-Asian l…
Caminhos de ferro e desenvolvimento econômico na Índia e em Portugal
No final do século XIX, Portugal empreendeu a construção de dois caminhos de ferro de bitola reduzida na província continental de Trás-os-Montes e no domínio colonial de Goa, na Índia, dois territórios subdesenvolvidos sob soberania portuguesa. Ambos eram aplicações práticas do programa português de grandes obras públicas, conhecido historicamente como Fontismo, o qual propunha a angariação de capital nos mercados internacionais e sua aplicação n…
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