Format:
Online-Ressource (620 p)
ISBN:
9780803248328
Content:
Based on three decades of fieldwork throughout the developing world, Scars of Partition is the first book to systematically evaluate the long-term implications of French and British styles of colonialism and decolonization for ordinary people throughout the so-called Third World. It pays particular attention to the contemporary legacies of artificial boundaries superimposed by Britain and France that continue to divide indigenous peoples into separate postcolonial states. In so doing, it uniquely illustrates how the distinctive stamps of France and Britain continue to mark daily life along and
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. Anglo-French Partition and Postcolonialism; 2. Classic Colonial Partition; 3. Partition by Island; 4. Political Arbitrariness of Archipelagoes; 5. Soft, Sequential, and Hybridic Colonialism; 6. Mainland Southeast Asia and the Conundrum of Communism; 7. Scars of Partition in Postcolonial Borderlands and Beyond; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780803267725
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780803248328
Additional Edition:
Print version Scars of Partition : Postcolonial Legacies in French and British Borderlands
Language:
English
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