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ISBN: | 9780520933330 0520933338 9781429471800 1429471808 9780520258051 0520258053 9780520249462 0520249461 1282762230 9781282762237 9786612762239 6612762233 1433709694 9781433709692
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-252) and index. English. Print version record.
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Summary: | An innovative remapping of empire, Imperial Connections offers a broad-ranging view of the workings of the British Empire in the period when the India of the Raj stood at the center of a newly globalized system of trade, investment, and migration. Thomas R. Metcalf argues that India itself became a nexus of imperial power that made possible British conquest, control, and governance across a wide arc of territory stretching from Africa to eastern Asia. His book, offering a new perspective on how imperialism operates, emphasizes transcolonial interactions and webs of influence that advanced the.
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Other form: | Print version: Metcalf, Thomas R., 1934- Imperial connections. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007 9780520249462 0520249461
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Standard no.: | 9780520258051
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