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The Black Hole of Empire : History of a Global Practice of Power.
When Siraj, the ruler of Bengal, overran the British settlement of Calcutta in 1756, he allegedly jailed 146 European prisoners overnight in a cramped prison. Of the group, 123 died of suffocation. While this episode was never independently confirmed, the story of ""the black hole of Calcu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; CHAPTER ONE: Outrage in Calcutta; The Travels of a Monument; Old Fort William; A New Nawab; The Fall of Calcutta; The Aftermath of Defeat; The ""Genuine"" Narrative; Reconquest and More; Whose Revolution?; CHAPTER TWO: A Secret Veil; The Conquest in History; The Age of Plunder; Early Histories of Conquest; The Modern State and Modern Empires; The Nabobs Come Home; The Critique of Conquest; CHAPTER THREE: Tipu's Tiger; A Bengali in Britain; Contemporary Indian Histories; The Early Modern in South Asia
- The Early Modern as a Category of TransitionNīti versus Dharma; An Early Modern History of Bengal; Tipu as an Early Modern Absolute Monarch; The Tiger of Mysore; The Mysore Family in Calcutta; CHAPTER FOUR: Liberty of the Subject; The New Fort William; The Early Press in Calcutta; The Strength of Constitution; The Making of Early Modern Citizens; Other Early Modern Institutions; CHAPTER FIVE: Equality of Subjects; The Falsehood of All Religions; The Colonization of Barbarous Countries; Citizens of Character and Capital; The Unsung End of Early Modernity
- CHAPTER SIX: For the Happiness of MankindThe Founding of a Myth; The Utility of Empire; The Morality of Empire; The Myth Refurbished; CHAPTER SEVEN: The Pedagogy of Violence; The Law of Nations in the East; Dalhousie and Paramountcy; Awadh under British Protection; The Road to Annexation; Awadh Annexed; Imperialism: Liberal and Antiliberal; A Chimerical Lucknow; CHAPTER EIGHT: The Pedagogy of Culture; The Contradictions of Colonial Modernity; The City and the Public; The New Bengali Theater; Shedding a Tear for Siraj; On the Poetic and Historical Imaginations; Siraj and the National-Popular
- The Dramatic Form of the National-PopularSurveillance and Proscription; CHAPTER NINE: Bombs, Sovereignty, and Football; The New Memorial; The Scramble for Empire; The Normalization of the Nation-State; Violence and the Motherland; Early Actions; Strategies and Tactics; Igniting the Imagination; Football as a Manly Sport; Football and Nationalism; Official Responses; The Later Phase; CHAPTER TEN: The Death and Everlasting Life of Empire; A Gigantic Hoax; We Are Kings of the Country, and the Rest Are Slaves; Siraj, Once More on Stage; Endgames of Empire; Empire Today; Afterword; Notes