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Title Tensions of empire : colonial cultures in a bourgeois world / edited by Frederick Cooper, Ann Laura Stoler
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [1997]
©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 470 pages) : illustrations, map
Series ACLS Fellows' publications
Contents Between metropole and colony : rethinking a research agenda / Ann Laura Stoler and Frederick Cooper -- Liberal strategies of exclusion / Uday S. Mehta -- Imperialism and motherhood / Anna Davin -- Of mimicry and man : the ambivalence of colonial discourse / Homi Bhabha -- Images of empire, contests of conscience : models of colonial domination in South Africa / John L. Comaroff -- Sexual affronts and racial frontiers : European identities and the cultural politics of exclusion in colonial southeast Asia / Ann Laura Stoler -- "The conversion of Englishmen and the conversion of the world inseparable" : missionary imperialism and the language of class in early industrial Britain / Susan Thorne -- Race, gender, and citizenship in the German colonial empire / Lora Wildenthal -- "Le bébé en brousse" : European women, African birth spacing, and colonial intervention in breast feeding in the Belgian Congo / Nancy Rose Hunt -- Tradition in the service of modernity : architecture and urbanism in French colonial policy, 1900-1930 / Gwendolyn Wright -- Educating conformity in French colonial Algeria / Fanny Colonna -- The difference-deferral of a colonial modernity : public debates on domesticity in British Bengal / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- The dialectics of decolonization : nationalism and labor movements in postwar French Africa / Frederick Cooper -- Cars out of place : vampires, technology, and labor in east and central Africa / Luise White
Summary 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 text investigate metropolitan-colonial relationships from a new perspective. The fifteen essays in this book demonstrate various ways in which 'civilizing missions' in both metropolis and colony provided new sites for clarifying a bourgeois order
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject History, Modern -- 19th century.
History, Modern -- 20th century.
Imperialism -- History -- 19th century
Imperialism -- History -- 20th century
Colonies.
colonies.
HISTORY -- World.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Colonies
History, Modern
Imperialism
Imperialismus
Kolonialismus
Koloniale periode.
Burgerij.
Sociale aspecten.
Histoire universelle -- 19e siècle.
Histoire universelle -- 20e siècle.
Impérialisme -- 19e siècle.
Impérialisme -- 20e siècle.
Colonies.
Europe -- 20e siècle.
SUBJECT Europe -- History -- 1789-1900. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045705
Europe -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045714
Subject Europe
Asien
Europa
Europe -- 1789-1900.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Cooper, Frederick, 1947- editor.
Stoler, Ann Laura, editor.
ISBN 9780520918085
0520918088
1283311380
9781283311380
9786613311382
6613311383