LEADER 03088nam 2200637 450 001 9910820272403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-78238-243-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781782382430 035 $a(CKB)2550000001239293 035 $a(EBL)1375260 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001132577 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12414968 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001132577 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11154808 035 $a(PQKB)11600099 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1375260 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1375260 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10856039 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL585845 035 $a(OCoLC)875096002 035 $a(DE-B1597)637377 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781782382430 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001239293 100 $a20140414h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMetallic modern $eeveryday machines in colonial Sri Lanka /$fNira Wickramasinghe 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York :$cBerghahn Books,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (191 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-78238-242-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction - Exploring Sri Lanka's Modern: Multiple Loops of Belonging; Chapter 1 - Following the Singer Sewing Machine: Fashioning a Market in a British Crown Colony; Chapter 2 - Creating a Market Imaginary; Chapter 3 - Paths to a Buddhist Modern: From Siam to America; Chapter 4 - The Gramophone: Soulful Sounds and Sacred Speeches; Chapter 5 - An Asian Modern: Japan; Chapter 6 - Trams, Cars, Bicycles: Modern Machines in the City; Chapter 7 - A Tailor's Tale and Machines in the Home; Chapter 8 - Working like Machines 327 $aConclusion - Metallic ModernGlossary; Bibliography; Index 330 $a 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. The 'metallic modern' of the 19th and early 20th century Ceylon encompassed multiple worlds of belonging and imagination; and enabled diverse conceptions of time to coexist through encounters with Siam, the United States and Japan as well as a new conception of urban space in Colombo. Metallic 606 $aIndustries$xSocial aspects$zSri Lanka$xHistory 606 $aConsumption (Economics)$zSri Lanka 606 $aCivilization, Modern 615 0$aIndustries$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aConsumption (Economics) 615 0$aCivilization, Modern. 676 $a338.095493 700 $aWickramasinghe$b Nira$0628805 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820272403321 996 $aMetallic modern$93977929 997 $aUNINA