Colonialism in question : theory, knowledge, history /

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Author / Creator:Cooper, Frederick, 1947- author.
Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 327 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11135898
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Other authors / contributors:Brubaker, Rogers, 1956- author.
ISBN:9780520938618
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-311) and index.
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Summary:In this closely integrated collection of essays on colonialism in world history, Frederick Cooper raises crucial questions about concepts relevant to a wide range of issues in the social sciences and humanities, including identity, globalization, and modernity. Rather than portray the past two centuries as the inevitable movement from empire to nation-state, Cooper places nationalism within a much wider range of imperial and diasporic imaginations, of rulers and ruled alike, well into the twentieth century. He addresses both the insights and the blind spots of colonial studies in an effort to get beyond the tendency in the field to focus on a generic colonialism located sometime between 1492 and the 1960s and somewhere in the "West." Broad-ranging, cogently argued, and with a historical focus that moves from Africa to South Asia to Europe, these essays, most published here for the first time, propose a fuller engagement in the give-and-take of history, not least in the ways in which concepts usually attributed to Western universalism--including citizenship and equality--were defined and reconfigured by political mobilizations in colonial contexts
Other form:Print version: Cooper, Frederick, 1947- Colonialism in question. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005 0520242149 0520244141
Standard no.:9780520938618
10.1525/9780520938618