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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
Otros Autores: Stoler, Ann Laura (Editor ), Cooper, Frederick, 1947- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1997]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 various ways in which 'civilizing missions' in both metropolis and colony provided new sites for clarifying a bourgeois order.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (463 pages): illustrations, map
ISBN:9780520918085