TY - BOOK ID - 52578861 TI - Metallic modern : everyday machines in colonial Sri Lanka PY - 2014 SN - 1782382429 1782382437 9781782382430 9781306545945 1306545943 9781782382423 PB - New York : Berghahn Books, DB - UniCat KW - Industries KW - Consumption (Economics) KW - Civilization, Modern. KW - Social aspects KW - History. KW - Modern civilization KW - Modernity KW - Civilization KW - Renaissance KW - Consumer demand KW - Consumer spending KW - Consumerism KW - Spending, Consumer KW - Demand (Economic theory) KW - Industrial production KW - Industry KW - Economics KW - History KW - Industries, Primitive UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:52578861 AB - 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 ER -