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Engaging Colonial Knowledge

Reading European Archives in World History

Herausgegeben: Roque, R.; Wagner, K.

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

SUSAN BAYLY Reader in Historical Anthropology, Cambridge University, UK NIELS BRIMNES Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark LEIGH DENAULT Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, UK and Research Associate, Centre for History and Economics, King's College, Cambridge, UK CAROLINE DODDS PENNOCK Lecturer in Early Modern History, the University of Leicester, UK ANN LAURA STOLER Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies, the Graduate Faculty of The New School for Social Research, New York, USA ALAN STRATHERN Research Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, UK NICHOLAS THOMAS Professor of Historical Anthropology and Director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK PAULINE VON HELLERMANN Research Fellow, the University of York, UK ANDREW ZIMMERMAN Associate Professor of History, the George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-24198-5
• 2012 edition
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9780230241985
• ISBN-10: 0230241980
• Artikelnr.: 34438936

Rezensionen

"Overall, the contributions emphasise the potential of the colonial archives in providing access to a historical reality through the addition of analytical criticism. The case studies convincingly indicate omissions of 'post-Orientalist' criticism....The high quality of the individual contributions is undeniable." - Nathanael Kuck, Comparativ