Empire Within Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal

Name: Empire Within Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal
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ISBN: 9780773536951

ISBN-10: 0773536957

ISBN-13: 9780773536951

Edition: 2010

Authors: Sean Mills

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How did a First World urban population come to imagine itself as part of a global anti-colonial movement? The Empire Within tackles this and other paradoxes created by the surprising power and influence of Third World decolonisation on the political activism in 1960s Montreal. In a brilliant history of a turbulent time and place, Mills pulls back the curtain on the decade's activists and intellectuals, showing their engagement both with each other and with people from around the world. He demonstrates how activists of different backgrounds and with different political aims drew on ideas of decolonisation to rethink the meanings attached to the politics of sex, race, and class and to imagine…

Book details

List price: $37.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication date: 3/25/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 302
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.056