Format:
1 online resource (483 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780520918085
Content:
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. Focusing on the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, they show how new definitions of modernity and welfare were developed and how new discourses and practices of inclusion and exclusion were contested and worked out. The contributors argue that colonial studies can no longer be confined to the units of analysis on which it once relied; instead of being the study of "the colonized," it must account for the shifting political terrain on which the very categories of colonized and colonizer have been shaped and patterned at different times.
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Between Metropole and Colony: Rethinking a Research Agenda -- Part I: Framings -- 1. Liberal Strategies of Exclusion -- 2. Imperialism and Motherhood -- 3. Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse -- Part II: Making Boundaries -- 4. Images of Empire, Contests of Conscience: Models of Colonial Domination in South Africa -- 5. Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers: European Identities and the Cultural Politics of Exclusion in Colonial Southeast Asia -- 6. "The Conversion of Englishmen and the Conversion of the World Inseparable": Missionary Imperialism and the Language of Class in Early Industrial Britain -- 7. Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the German Colonial Empire -- Part III: Colonial Projects -- 8. "Le bébé en brousse": European Women, African Birth Spacing, and Colonial Intervention in Breast Feeding in the Belgian Congo -- 9. Tradition in the Service of Modernity: Architecture and Urbanism in French Colonial Policy, 1900-1930 -- 10. Educating Conformity in French Colonial Algeria -- Part IV: Contesting the Categories of Rule -- 11. The Difference-Deferral of a Colonial Modernity: Public Debates on Domesticity in British Bengal -- 12. The Dialectics of Decolonization: Nationalism and Labor Movements in Postwar French Africa -- 13. Cars Out of Place: Vampires, Technology, and Labor in East and Central Africa -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Between Metropole and Colony: Rethinking a Research Agenda; Part I: Framings; 1. Liberal Strategies of Exclusion; 2. Imperialism and Motherhood; 3. Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse; Part II: Making Boundaries; 4. Images of Empire, Contests of Conscience: Models of Colonial Domination in South Africa; 5. Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers: European Identities and the Cultural Politics of Exclusion in Colonial Southeast Asia
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6. ""The Conversion of Englishmen and the Conversion of the World Inseparable"": Missionary Imperialism and the Language of Class in Early Industrial Britain7. Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the German Colonial Empire; Part III: Colonial Projects; 8. ""Le bébé en brousse"": European Women, African Birth Spacing, and Colonial Intervention in Breast Feeding in the Belgian Congo; 9. Tradition in the Service of Modernity: Architecture and Urbanism in French Colonial Policy, 1900-1930; 10. Educating Conformity in French Colonial Algeria; Part IV: Contesting the Categories of Rule
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11. The Difference-Deferral of a Colonial Modernity: Public Debates on Domesticity in British Bengal12. The Dialectics of Decolonization: Nationalism and Labor Movements in Postwar French Africa; 13. Cars Out of Place: Vampires, Technology, and Labor in East and Central Africa; Notes on Contributors; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520206052
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780520206052
Language:
English
