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Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World
Cooper
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Paperback. 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, this volume investigates metropolitan-colonial relationships. It shows how "civilizing missions" often provided new sites for a bourgeois order. Editor(s): Cooper, Frederick; Stoler, Ann Laura. Num Pages: 463 pages, 10. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJH; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 36. Weight in Grams: 720.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
463
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Weight
720g
Number of Pages
463
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520206052
SKU
V9780520206052
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About Cooper
Frederick Cooper is Professor of African History at the University of Michigan. His latest book is Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa (1996). Ann Laura Stoler is Professor of Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan and author most recently of Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the ... Read more
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