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Matter And Materialism: A Brief Prehistory Of The Present / John Frow -- Locating Matter: The Place Of Materiality In Urban History / Chris Otter -- The Matter Of Materialism: Literary Mediations / Bill Brown -- The Unintended State / Chandra Mukerji -- Filing The Raj: Political Technologies Of The Imperial British State / Patrick Joyce -- Abstraction, Materiality And The Science Of The Concrete In Engineering Practice / Penny Harvey And Hannah Knox -- Camerawork As Technical Practice In Colonial India / Christopher Pinney -- Exploring The Senses And Exploiting The Land: Railroads, Bodies And Measurement In Nineteenth-century French Colonies / Nélia Dias -- Making And Mobilising Worlds: Assembling And Governing The Other / Tony Bennett. Edited By Tony Bennett And Patrick Joyce. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.