Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World
Carrying the inquiry into zones previous itineraries have typically avoided—the creation of races, sexual relations, invention of tradition, and regional rulers' strategies for dealing with the conquerors—the book brings out features of European expansion and contraction we have not...
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Carrying the inquiry into zones previous itineraries have typically avoided—the creation of races, sexual relations, invention of tradition, and regional rulers' strategies for dealing with the conquerors—the book brings out features of European expansion and contraction we have not seen well before.—Charles Tilly, The New School for Social Research"What is important about this book is its commitment to shaping theory through the careful interpretation of grounded, empirically-based historical and ethnographic studies. . . . By far the best collection I have seen on the subject."—Sherry B. Ortner, Columbia University
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780520206052 (0520206053)
Publish date: February 6th 1997
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages no: 463
Edition language: English
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