Tensions of Empire Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World

Name: Tensions of Empire Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World
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ISBN: 9780520206052

ISBN-10: 0520206053

ISBN-13: 9780520206052

Edition: 1998

Authors: Frederick Cooper, Ann Laura Stoler

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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 toTensions of Empireinvestigate 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…

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List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 2/6/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 463
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Between Metropole and Colony: Rethinking a Research Agenda




Liberal Strategies of Exclusion




Imperialism and Motherhood




Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse




Images of Empire, Contests of Conscience: Models of Colonial Domination in South Africa




Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers: European Identities and the Cultural Politics of Exclusion in Colonial Southeast Asia




"The Conversion of Englishmen and the Conversion of the World Inseparable": Missionary Imperialism and the Language of Class in Early Industrial Britain




Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the German Colonial Empire




"Le bebe en brousse": European Women, African Birth Spacing, and Colonial Intervention in Breast Feeding in the Belgian Congo




Tradition in the Service of Modernity: Architecture and Urbanism in French Colonial Policy, 1900-1930




Educating Conformity in French Colonial Algeria




The Difference - Deferral of a Colonial Modernity: Public Debates on Domesticity in British Bengal




The Dialectics of Decolonization: Nationalism and Labor Movements in Postwar French Africa




Cars Out of Place: Vampires, Technology, and Labor in East and Central Africa



Notes on Contributors


Index