UID:
edocfu_9959230652002883
Format:
1 online resource (212 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-00962-3
,
1-134-00963-1
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1-282-28344-8
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9786612283444
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0-203-88084-6
Content:
British discourse during the Mandate, with its unremitting convergence on the problematic 'native question', and which rested on racial and cultural theories and presumptions, as well as on certain givens drawn from the British class system, has been taken for granted by historians. The validity of cultural representations as pronounced within official correspondence and colonial laws and regulations, as well as within the private papers of colonial officials, survives more or less intact. There are features of colonialism additional to economic and political power, which are glaring yet ha
Note:
"A GlassHouse book."
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: This is not ethnography; Chapter 1 'Through their chiefs': The metanarrative of imperial rule in Africa and the East; Chapter 2 'Unmarked and undivided': Language, law and myth - how to transform aboriginal landscape; Chapter 3 'Between the bazaar and the bungalow': A rebellion without rebels; Chapter 4 'Raising of the religious cry': How to make Muslims, moderates and extremists out of the élite; Chapter 5 The last word: The unusual suspects; Bibliography; Index
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-68530-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-48993-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203880845
