Colonialism in question : theory, knowledge, history

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The work Colonialism in question : theory, knowledge, history represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Colonialism in question : theory, knowledge, history

Title remainder

theory, knowledge, history

Statement of responsibility

Frederick Cooper

Creator

• Cooper, Frederick, 1947-
• Cooper, Frederick, 1947-

Contributor

• Brubaker, Rogers, 1956-
• Brubaker, Rogers, 1956-

Author

• Brubaker, Rogers, 1956-
• Brubaker, Rogers, 1956-
• Cooper, Frederick, 1947-
• Cooper, Frederick, 1947-

Subject

• Africa -- Colonization | Historiography
• Decolonization -- Africa -- Historiography
• Decolonization -- Historiography
• Imperialism -- Historiography

Language

eng

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

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

325.6

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

LC call number

DT30

LC item number

.C5953 2005eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• standards specifications
• bibliography