Imperial Formations
Published on 1. December 2007
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465 pages
978-1-84701-200-5 (ISBN)
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This collection moves beyond the Euro-centric slant of colonial studies to compare European and non-European empires with socialist states and empire beyond colonialism.
The contributors to this volume criticise and abandon the assumption that European colonialism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centureis can be taken as the representative form of imperialism. Recasting the study of imperial governance, forms of sovereignty,and the imperialstate, the authors pay close attention to non-European empires and the active trade in ideas, practices, and technologies, as well as between metropolitan regions and far flung colonies.
North America: School for Advanced Research Press
The contributors to this volume criticise and abandon the assumption that European colonialism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centureis can be taken as the representative form of imperialism. Recasting the study of imperial governance, forms of sovereignty,and the imperialstate, the authors pay close attention to non-European empires and the active trade in ideas, practices, and technologies, as well as between metropolitan regions and far flung colonies.
North America: School for Advanced Research Press
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English
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Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84701-200-5 (9781847012005)
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Ann Laura Stoler is at the Department of Anthropology, New School for Social Research; Carole McGranahan is at the Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder; Peter C. Perdue is at the Department of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Content
Introduction: refiguring imperial terrains by Ann Stoler & Carole McGranahan; I THE PRODUCTION & PROTECTION OF DIFFERENCE Bringing America back into the Middle East: a history of the first American missionary encounter with the Ottoman Arab world by Ussama Makdisi; The rights of difference: law & citizenship in the Russian empire by Jane Burbank; The Soviet Union as an imperial formation: a view from Central Asia by Adeeb Khalid; Erasing the empire, re-racing the nation: racialism & culturalism in imperial China by Peter C. Perdue; II RETHINKING BOUNDARIES, IMAGINARIES, EMPIRES Empire out of bounds: Tibet in the era of decolonization by Carole McGranahan; The imperialism of 'free nations': Japan, Manchukuo, and the history of the present by Prasenjit Duara; After empire: reflections on imperialism from the Americas by Fernando Cornil; III NEW GENEALOGIES OF THE IMPERIAL STATE Modern inquisitions by Irene Silverblatt; Imperial sovereignty by Nicholas Dirks; Provincializing France by Frederick Cooper.