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UNINA9910451345503321 |
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Aldrich Robert <1954, > |
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Titolo |
Colonialism and homosexuality / / Robert Aldrich |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
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1-134-64460-4 |
1-281-10080-3 |
9786611100803 |
0-203-93017-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (449 p.) |
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Homosexuality - Europe - Colonies - History |
Gay men - Sexual behavior - Europe - Colonies |
Interpersonal relations - Europe - Colonies |
Gay men - Africa - Social conditions |
Gay men - Asia - Social conditions |
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Africa Colonization |
Asia Colonization |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [412]-426) and index. |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Maps; Introduction: The seduction of the colonies; Prologue: The art of colonial homosexual love; Part I: Colonials and homosexuality; 1 The sex life of explorers; 2 Captains of empire; 3 The company of men; 4 Writers' lives and letters; 5 Artists and homoerotic 'Orientalism'; 6 Scandals and tragedies; Part II: Sites of colonial homosexuality; 7 Sex in settler societies: The case of Australia; 8 Sex in the South Seas: Melanesia; 9 The British (and others) in South Asia; 10 Forster, Masood, Mohammed and the maharajah |
11 The French in North AfricaPart III: The end of empire; 12 Anti-colonialism and homosexuality; Epilogue: After the empire; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
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Colonialism and Homosexuality is a thorough investigation of the |
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connections of homosexuality and imperialism from the late 1800s - the era of 'new imperialism' - until the era of decolonization. Robert Aldrich reconstructs the context of a number of liaisons, including those of famous men such as Cecil Rhodes, E.M. Forster or AndreĢ Gide, and the historical situations which produced both the Europeans and their non-Western lovers. Colonial lands, which in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century included most of Africa, South and Southeast Asia and the islands of the |
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UNIORUON00229297 |
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Autore |
KOTKIN, Stephen |
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Armageddon Averted : The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 / by Stephen Kotkin |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2001 |
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xvii, 245 p. : tav. ; 19 cm. |
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UNIONE SOVIETICA - STORIA - 1970-2000 |
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