Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 470 pages)
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illustrations, map
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0520205405
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0520206053
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0520918088
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9780520205406
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9780520206052
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9780520918085
Inhalt:
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 'Tensions of Empire' investigate metropolitan-colonial relationships from a new perspective. The fifteen essays demonstrate various ways in which 'civilizing missions' in both metropolis and colony provided new sites for clarifying a bourgeois order
Inhalt:
Between metropole and colony: rethinking a research agenda / Ann Laura Stoler and Frederick Cooper -- Liberal strategies of exclusion / Uday S. Mehta -- Imperialism and motherhood / Anna Davis -- Of mimicry and man: the ambivalence of colonial discourse / Homi Bhabha -- Images of empire, contests of conscience: models of colonial domination in South Africa / John L. Comaroff -- Sexual affronts and racial frontiers: European identities and the cultural politics of exclusion in colonial southeast Asia / Ann Laura Stoler -- "The conversion of Englishmen and the conversion of the world inseparable": missionary imperialism and the language of class in early industrial Britain / Susan Thorne -- Race, gender, and citizenship in the German colonial empire / Lora Wildenthal -- "Le bébé en brousse": European women, African birth spacing, and colonial intervention in breast feeding in the Belgian Congo / Nancy Rose Hunt -- Tradition in the service of modernity: architecture and urbanism in French colonial policy, 1900-1930 / Gwendolyn Wright -- Educating conformity in French colonial Algeria / Fanny Colonna -- The difference-deferral of a colonial modernity: public debates on domesticity in British Bengal / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- The dialectics of decolonization: nationalism and labor movements in postwar French Africa / Frederick Cooper -- Cars out of place: vampires, technology, and labor in east and central Africa / Luise White
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Tensions of empire Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1997
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
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Mehr zum Autor:
Cooper, Frederick 1947-
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