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Spatial appropriations in modern empires, 1820-1960 : beyond dispossession /
This book provides fresh insights into colonial and imperial histories by focusing on spatial appropriations. Moving away from European notions of property, appropriation encompasses the many ways in which social actors consider a space as their own. This space may be physical or immaterial, public...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book provides fresh insights into colonial and imperial histories by focusing on spatial appropriations. Moving away from European notions of property, appropriation encompasses the many ways in which social actors consider a space as their own. This space may be physical or immaterial, public or intimate, lived or imagined. In modern empires, spatial appropriations amounted neither to a material and violent dispossession orchestrated by European or Japanese powers, nor to an ongoing and unquestioned resistance by subaltern peoples. They were rather sites of complex interactions, in which ... |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 351 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9781527540156 1527540154 1527536696 9781527536692 |