Define and rule : native as political identity /
Author / Creator: | Mamdani, Mahmood, 1946- |
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012. |
Description: | 154 p. ; 20 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | The W.E.B. Du Bois lectures W.E.B. Du Bois lectures. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8929455 |
Summary: | Define and Rule focuses on the turn in late nineteenth-century colonial statecraft when Britain abandoned the attempt to eradicate difference between conqueror and conquered and introduced a new idea of governance, as the definition and management of difference. Mahmood Mamdani explores how lines were drawn between settler and native as distinct political identities, and between natives according to tribe. Out of that colonial experience issued a modern language of pluralism and difference. |
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Physical Description: | 154 p. ; 20 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780674050525 0674050525 |