About this title: 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 to this volume investigate metropolitan-colonial relationships. The 15 essays demonstrate various ways in which "civilizing missions" in both metropolis and colony provided new sites for clarifying a bourgeois order. Focusing on the 18th, 19th, and early 20th 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 ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780520206052ISBN:0520206053
Description: New. "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 e... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN-13:9780520206052ISBN:0520206053
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN-13:9780520206052ISBN:0520206053
Description: New. 0520206053 Absolutely Brand New. No marks and in pristine condition. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
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