Tensions of empire : colonial cultures in a bourgeois world / edited by Frederick Cooper, Ann Laura Stoler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cooper, Frederick, 1947-

Stoler, Ann Laura.

Series:

ACLS Fellows’ publications.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History, Modern--19th century.

History, Modern.

History, Modern--20th century.

Imperialism--History--19th century.

Imperialism.

Imperialism--History--20th century.

Colonies.

Europe--History--1789-1900.

Europe.

Europe--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 470 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of CA Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

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 Tensions of Empire investigate metropolitan-colonial relationships from a new perspective. The fifteen essays demonstrate various ways in which "civilizing missions" in both metropolis and colony provided new sites for clarifying a bourgeois order. Focusing on the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, they show how new definitions of modernity and welfare were developed and how new discourses and practices of inclusion and exclusion were contested and worked out. The contributors argue that colonial studies can no longer be confined to the units of analysis on which it once relied; instead of being the study of "the colonized," it must account for the shifting political terrain on which the very categories of colonized and colonizer have been shaped and patterned at different times.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Between Metropole and Colony

1. Liberal Strategies of Exclusion

2. Imperialism and Motherhood

3. Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse

4. Images of Empire, Contests of Conscience

5. Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers

6. "The Conversion of Englishmen and the Conversion of the World Inseparable"

7. Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the German Colonial Empire

8. "Le bebe en brousse"

9. Tradition in the Service of Modernity

10. Educating Conformity in French Colonial Algeria

11. he Difference-Deferral of a Colonial Modernity

12. The Dialectics of Decolonization

13. Cars Out of Place

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786613311382

9781283311380

1283311380

9780520918085

0520918088

OCLC:

317460590