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Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History
Cooper
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Paperback. Num Pages: 339 pages, 2 line illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490. Theory, Knowledge, History. 339 pages, 2 illustrations, 2 maps. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HBTQ; HBTR. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 21. Weight: 482.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
339
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
481g
Number of Pages
339
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520244146
SKU
V9780520244146
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About Cooper
Frederick Cooper, Professor of History at New York University, is author of Africa since 1940: The Past of the Present (2002) and coeditor, with Ann Laura Stoler, of Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (California, 1997), among other books.
Reviews for Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History
"This is a very much needed book: on Africa, on intellectual artisanship and on engagement in emancipatory projects. Drawing on his enormous erudition in colonial history, Cooper brings together an intellectual and a moral-political argument against a series of linked developments that privilege 'taking a stance' and in favor of studying processes of struggle through engaged scholarship." - Jane I. ... Read more