Colonialism in Question Theory, Knowledge, History

Name: Colonialism in Question Theory, Knowledge, History
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ISBN: 9780520244146

ISBN-10: 0520244141

ISBN-13: 9780520244146

Edition: 2005

Authors: Frederick Cooper

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In this closely integrated collection of essays on colonialism in world history, Frederick Cooper raises crucial questions about concepts relevant to a wide range of issues in the social sciences and humanities, including identity, globalization, and modernity. Rather than portray the past two centuries as the inevitable movement from empire to nation-state, Cooper places nationalism within a much wider range of imperial and diasporic imaginations, of rulers and ruled alike, well into the twentieth century. He addresses both the insights and the blind spots of colonial studies in an effort to get beyond the tendency in the field to focus on a generic colonialism located sometime between…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/6/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 339
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments



Colonial Studies And Interdisciplinary Scholarship



Introduction: Colonial Questions, Historical Trajectories



The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Colonial Studies, 1951-2001



Concepts In Question



Identity--With Rogers Brubaker



Globalization



Modernity



The Possibilities Of History



States, Empires, and Political Imagination



Labor, Politics, and the End of Empire in French Africa



Conclusion: Colonialism, History, Politics


Notes


Index