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Assembling the local : political economy and agrarian governance in British India /

In Assembling the Local, Upal Chakrabarti argues that the ""local"" should be reconceptualized as an abstract machine, which was itself central to the construction of the universal, namely, the establishment of political economy as a form of governance in nineteenth-century Briti...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Chakrabarti, Upal (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
Series:Intellectual history of the modern age.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Assembling the Local
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction. Universality as Difference
  • Chapter 1. Science, Method, and Indigeneity: Political Economy
  • Chapter 2. The Trace of the Local: Rent
  • Chapter 3. Temporal Geographies of Power: Property
  • Chapter 4. Grounding Governance: Village
  • Chapter 5. Disputes in the Locality: Peasants
  • Conclusion. Rewriting Production
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments