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Why, Ann Laura Stoler asks, was the management of sexual arrangements and affective attachments so critical to the making of colonial categories and to what distinguished ruler from ruled? Contending that social classification is not a benign cultural act but a potent political …
"In recent years, a multicultural society and changing conceptions of French identity have been the source of considerable debate in scholarship, literature and the media in France. This book examines equally contested definitions of French identity from the past, but not those …
Postcolonial studies: the key concepts
by Griffiths, Gareth, Ashcroft, Bill, Tiffin, Helen
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"The Jurisprudence of Emergency analyzes the historical uses of a range of emergency powers, such as the suspension of habeas corpus and the use of military tribunals. Nasser Hussain focuses on the relationship between 'emergency' and the law to develop a subtle new theory of th…
Explores the intricate and delicate relationship between the concepts of a rule of law and emergency.
'Diana Markides' superb path-breaking study of finance, diplomacy and politics puts the history of Cyprus under British rule in an entirely fresh light. Money is shown to lie at the heart of the story from the British occupation in 1878 through to the end of colonial rule. This …
In Expansion and Global Interaction: 1200-1700 , David Ringrose, an established historian of Spain and its empire, explores the dynamism that appears everywhere in the world after 1200 and shows how a series of autonomous societies became interdependent on a global scale by 1700…
This collection of essays by eminent anthropologists, missiologists and historians explores the hitherto neglected topic of women missionaries and the effect of Christian missionary activity upon women. The book consists of two parts. The first part looks at nineteenth-century w…
This collection of essays by eminent anthropologists, missiologists and historians explores the hitherto neglected topic of women missionaries and the effect of Christian missionary activity upon women. The book consists of two parts. The first part looks at nineteenth-century w…
In recent years, imperial history has experienced a newfound vigour, dynamism and diversity. There has been an explosion of new work in the field, which has been driven into even greater prominence by contemporary world events. However, this resurgence has brought with it disput…
