ePub Conjugal Love in India: Rati Stra and Ratiraman A. Text; Translation; and Notes (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Studies) by Kenneth Zysk in History

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Chloroform; telegraphy; steamships and rifles were distinctly modern features of the Crimean War. Covered by a large corps of reporters; illustrators and cameramen; it also became the first media war in history. For the benefit of the ubiquitous artists and correspondents; both the domestic events were carefully staged; giving the Crimean War an aesthetically alluring; even spectacular character.With their exclusive focus on written sources; historians have consistently overlooked this visual dimension of the Crimean War. Photo-historian Ulrich Keller challenges the traditional literary bias by drawing on a wealth of pictorial materials from scientific diagrams to photographs; press illustration and academic painting. The result is a new and different historical account which emphasizes the careful aesthetic scripting of the war for popular mass consumption at home.