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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455073503321

Autore

Mitchell Timothy <1955->

Titolo

Colonising Egypt / / Timothy Mitchell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 1991

ISBN

1-280-07899-5

9786613520197

0-520-91166-0

0-585-11672-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 218 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

303.48/26204

Soggetti

Egypt History

Egypt Relations Europe

Europe Relations Egypt

Egypt Civilization 1798-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-213) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Egypt at the exhibition -- Chapter 3. An appearance of order -- Chapter 4. After we have captured their bodies -- Chapter 5. The machinery of truth -- Chapter 6. The philosophy of the thing -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt.