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Thomas W. Gallant - Experiencing Dominion: Culture, Identity, and Power in the British Mediterranean - 9780268028015 - V9780268028015
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Experiencing Dominion: Culture, Identity, and Power in the British Mediterranean

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Description for Experiencing Dominion: Culture, Identity, and Power in the British Mediterranean Hardcover. This volume contributes to contemporary debates on hegemony, power and identity in contemporary historical and anthropological literature through an examination of the imperial encounter between the British and the Greeks of the Ionian Islands during the 19th century. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DVGS; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTQ; HBTR; JFS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 612.

Experiencing Dominion contributes to ongoing debates on hegemony, power, and identity in contemporary historical and anthropological literature through an examination of the imperial encounter between the British and the Greeks of the Ionian Islands during the nineteenth century. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of the imperial encounter, with topics including identity construction, the contestation over civil society, gender and the manipulation of public space, hegemony and accommodation, the role of law and of the institutions of criminal justice, and religion and imperial dominion.

Thomas Gallant—widely recognized as one of the leading scholars in historical anthropology— argues that a ... Read more

Experiencing Dominion pushes contemporary literature on historical anthropology in a new direction by moving the discussion away from an emphasis on a simple polarity between hegemony and resistance, and instead focusing on the shared interactions between colonizers and colonized, rulers and ruled, foreigners and locals. In this important study, Gallant emphasizes contingency and historical agency, examines intentionality, and explores the processes of accommodation and, when warranted, resistance. In so doing, he reconstructs the world Britons and Greeks made together on the Ionian Islands during the nineteenth century through their shared experience of dominion.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268028015
SKU
V9780268028015
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About Thomas W. Gallant
Thomas W. Gallant is professor of Greek history at the University of Florida. He is the author of numerous books, including Modern Greece.

Reviews for Experiencing Dominion: Culture, Identity, and Power in the British Mediterranean
“This book is an extraordinary piece of historical and anthropological scholarship. This kind of social history, based on primary sources that reveal significant truths about the activities of the peasantry and other working-class people, informed by historical and anthropological perspectives, and focusing on the colonial context, is typical of the current trend in hybrid scholarship. Experiencing Dominion represents one of ... Read more

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