Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Imperial Formations
Ann Laura Stoler (Ed.)
€ 39.83
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Imperial Formations
Paperback. Imperial Formations alters our understanding of past empires the better to understand the way that complex history shapes the politics of the present imperial juncture. Editor(s): Stoler, Ann Laura; McGranahan, Carole; Perdue, Peter C. Series: School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: HBTQ; HBTR; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Weight in Grams: 567.
The contributors to this volume critique and abandon the limiting assumption that the European colonialism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries can be taken as the representative form of imperialism. Recasting the study of imperial governance, forms of sovereignty, and the imperial state, the authors pay close attention to non-European empires and the active trade in ideas, practices, and technologies among empires, as well as between metropolitan regions and far-flung colonies. The Ottoman, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, and Japanese empires provide provocative case studies that challenge the temporal and conceptual framework within which colonial studies usually operates. Was the ... Read more
The contributors to this volume critique and abandon the limiting assumption that the European colonialism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries can be taken as the representative form of imperialism. Recasting the study of imperial governance, forms of sovereignty, and the imperial state, the authors pay close attention to non-European empires and the active trade in ideas, practices, and technologies among empires, as well as between metropolitan regions and far-flung colonies. The Ottoman, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, and Japanese empires provide provocative case studies that challenge the temporal and conceptual framework within which colonial studies usually operates. Was the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
SAR Press
Condition
New
Series
School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Santa Fe, United States
ISBN
9781930618732
SKU
V9781930618732
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Ann Laura Stoler (Ed.)
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
Reviews for Imperial Formations