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Tensions of empire : colonial cultures in a bourgeois world /

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 this text investigate metropolitan-colonial relationships from a new perspective. The fifteen essays in this book demonstrate vari...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cooper, Frederick, 1947- (Editor ), Stoler, Ann Laura (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1997]
Colección:ACLS Fellows' publications.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Between metropole and colony : rethinking a research agenda / Ann Laura Stoler and Frederick Cooper
  • Liberal strategies of exclusion / Uday S. Mehta
  • Imperialism and motherhood / Anna Davin
  • Of mimicry and man : the ambivalence of colonial discourse / Homi Bhabha
  • Images of empire, contests of conscience : models of colonial domination in South Africa / John L. Comaroff
  • Sexual affronts and racial frontiers : European identities and the cultural politics of exclusion in colonial southeast Asia / Ann Laura Stoler
  • "The conversion of Englishmen and the conversion of the world inseparable" : missionary imperialism and the language of class in early industrial Britain / Susan Thorne
  • Race, gender, and citizenship in the German colonial empire / Lora Wildenthal
  • "Le bébé en brousse" : European women, African birth spacing, and colonial intervention in breast feeding in the Belgian Congo / Nancy Rose Hunt
  • Tradition in the service of modernity : architecture and urbanism in French colonial policy, 1900-1930 / Gwendolyn Wright
  • Educating conformity in French colonial Algeria / Fanny Colonna
  • The difference-deferral of a colonial modernity : public debates on domesticity in British Bengal / Dipesh Chakrabarty
  • The dialectics of decolonization : nationalism and labor movements in postwar French Africa / Frederick Cooper
  • Cars out of place : vampires, technology, and labor in east and central Africa / Luise White.