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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jelly-Schapiro, Eli (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Subjects:
2001-2009
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009, in literature.
Terrorism > United States.
National security > United States.
International relations and terrorism > United States.
Imperialism.
Guerre contre le terrorisme, 2001-2009.
Guerre contre le terrorisme, 2001-2009, dans la littérature.
Terrorisme > États-Unis.
Relations internationales et terrorisme > États-Unis.
Impérialisme.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Imperialism
International relations and terrorism
National security
Terrorism
War on Terrorism (2001-2009) in literature
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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