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Engaging Colonial Knowledge : Reading European Archives in World History / edited by R. Roque, K. Wagner.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Roque, Ricardo.
Wagner, Kim A.
Series:
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, 2635-1641
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Asia--History.
Asia.
World history.
Imperialism.
Africa--History.
Africa.
History, Modern.
Historiography.
History--Methodology.
History.
Asian History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
African History.
Modern History.
Historiography and Method.
Local Subjects:
Asian History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
African History.
Modern History.
Historiography and Method.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (319 p.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2012.
Place of Publication:
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Presenting a set of rich case-studies which demonstrate novel and productive approaches to the study of colonial knowledge, this volume covers British, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish colonial encounters in Africa, Asia, America and the Pacific, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Contents:
Introduction : engaging colonial knowledge / Ricardo Roque and Kim A. Wagner
"In cold blood" : hierarchies of credibility and the politics of colonial narratives / Ann Laura Stoler
North Indian lives in the archives of the colonial state / Leigh Denault
Reading farm and forest : colonial forest science and policy in southern Nigeria / Pauline von Hellermann
Insights from the "ancient word" : the use of colonial sources in the study of Aztec society / Caroline Dodds Pennock
"In unrestrained conversation" : approvers and the colonial ethnography of crime in nineteenth-century India / Kim A. Wagner
From civil servant to little king : an indigenous construction of colonial authority in early nineteenth-century south India / Niels Brimnes
French anthropology and the Durkheimians in colonial Indochina / Susan Bayly
Treachery and ethnicity in Portuguese representations of Sri Lanka / Alan Strathern
William hodges as anthropologist and historian / Nicholas Thomas
Entangled with otherness : military ethnographies of headhunting in East Timor / Ricardo Roque
"What do you really want in German East Africa, Herr Professor?" : counterinsurgency and the science effect in colonial Tanzania / Andrew Zimmerman.
Notes:
Includes papers originally presented at the workshop "Beyond Deconstruction : Engaging Colonial Knowledge", held at King's College, Cambridge, in Sept. 2006, as well as some post-conference papers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9786613361271
9781283361279
1283361272
9780230360075
0230360076
OCLC:
767503001

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