Metallic Modern

Author : Nira Wickramasinghe

Hardback

Published : Wednesday 1 January 2014

ISBN : 9781782382423

Price : €58.50

Description

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.

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