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Security and terror : American culture and the long history of colonial modernity /

"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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Jelly-Schapiro, Eli (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.