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Reading the Global : Troubling Perspectives on Britain's Empire in Asia.
The global is an instituted perspective, not just an empirical process. Adopted initially by the British in order to make sense of their polyglot territorial empire, the global perspective served to make heterogeneous spaces and nonwhite subjects ""legible, "" and in effect produ...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia University Press
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The global is an instituted perspective, not just an empirical process. Adopted initially by the British in order to make sense of their polyglot territorial empire, the global perspective served to make heterogeneous spaces and nonwhite subjects ""legible, "" and in effect produced the regions it sought merely to describe. The global was the dominant perspective from which the world was produced for representation and control. It also set the terms within which subjectivity and history came to be imagined by colonizers and modern anticolonial nationalists. In this book, S. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (256) |
| ISBN: | 1283008858 9781283008853 |