Security and Terror : American Culture and the Long History of Colonial Modernity /

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"When in 1492 Christopher Columbus set out for Asia but instead happened on the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola, his error inaugurated a specifically colonial modernity. This is, Security and Terror contends, the colonial modernity within which we still live. And its enduring features are especia...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Jelly-Schapiro, Eli (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
War on Terrorism (2001-2009) in literature.
Terrorism.
National security.
International relations and terrorism.
Imperialism.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Imperialisme.
Relations internationales et terrorisme > États-Unis.
Terrorisme > États-Unis.
Guerre contre le terrorisme, 2001-2009, dans la litterature.
Guerre contre le terrorisme, 2001-2009.
International relations and terrorism > United States.
National security > United States.
Terrorism > United States.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009, in literature.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : history, narrative, and the War on Terror
  • "All the world was America" : the long history of Homeland Security
  • "A general principle of democracy" : terror and colonial modernity
  • "Choc en retour" : security, terror, theory
  • "Vanishing points" : postcolonial America
  • "This is our threnody" : writing history as catastrophe
  • Epilogue : rupture and colonial modernity.

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