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SAR Press
- Imperial Formations
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: SAR Press
- Series: Advanced Seminar
summary
The contributors to this volume critique and abandon the limiting assumption that the European colonialism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries can be taken as the representative form of imperialism. Recasting the study of imperial governance, forms of sovereignty, and the imperial state, the authors pay close attention to non-European empires and the active trade in ideas, practices, and technologies among empires, as well as between metropolitan regions and far-flung colonies. The Ottoman, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, and Japanese empires provide provocative case studies that challenge the temporal and conceptual framework within which colonial studies usually operates. Was the Soviet Union an empire or a nation-state? What of Tibet, only recently colonized but long engaged with several imperial powers? Imperial Formations alters our understanding of past empires the better to understand the way that complex history shapes the politics of the present imperial juncture.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page
- p. 6
- Part 3 New Genealogies of the Imperial State
- pp. 286-287
- 9 Modern Inquisitions
- pp. 275-309
- 10 Imperial Sovereignty
- pp. 311-340
- 11 Provincializing France
- pp. 341-377
- References
- pp. 379-420
Additional Information
ISBN
9781938645259
Related ISBN(s)
9781930618732
MARC Record
OCLC
681594255
Pages
448
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No