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Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World
from: University of California Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 909.8
EAN: 9780520206052
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0520206053
Label: University of California Press
Manufacturer: University of California Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 463
Publication Date: February 06, 1997
Publisher: University of California Press
Studio: University of California Press
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Starting with the premise that Europe was made by its imperial projects as much as colonial encounters were shaped by events and conflicts in Europe, the contributors to Tensions of Empire investigate metropolitan-colonial relationships from a new perspective. The fifteen essays demonstrate various ways in which "civilizing missions" in both metropolis and colony provided new sites for clarifying a bourgeois order. Focusing on the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, they show how new definitions of modernity and welfare were developed and how new discourses and practices of inclusion and exclusion were contested and worked out. The contributors argue that colonial studies can no longer be confined to the units of analysis on which it once relied; instead of being the study of "the colonized," it must account for the shifting political terrain on which the very categories of colonized and colonizer have been shaped and patterned at different times.
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Rating: - A Multi-disciplinary Treatment of the Exclusionary "Other"
In this collection of essays, Frederick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler have attempted to shed light on an often overlooked aspect of European imperialism; the colonized. Specifically, the authors contend it is that gray area "between the public institutions of the colonial state and the intimate reaches of people's lives that seemed to us to demand more attention." Realizing the diversity of the European colonial experience, the authors wanted to examine whether or not there exists a correlation between ... Read More
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