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Colonising Egypt / Timothy Mitchell.
De Gruyter University of California Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitchell, Timothy, 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Egypt--History.
- Egypt.
- Egypt--Relations--Europe.
- Europe--Relations--Egypt.
- Europe.
- Egypt--Civilization--1798-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 218 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 1991.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface to the Paperback Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1. Egypt at the exhibition
- Chapter 3. An appearance of order
- Chapter 4. After we have captured their bodies
- Chapter 5. The machinery of truth
- Chapter 6. The philosophy of the thing
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-213) and index.
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613520197
- 9781280078996
- 1280078995
- 9780520911666
- 0520911660
- 9780585116723
- 0585116725
- OCLC:
- 44958502
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