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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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Autres auteurs: Stoler, Ann Laura (Éditeur intellectuel), Cooper, Frederick, 1947- (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1997]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (463 pages): illustrations, map
ISBN:9780520918085