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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466544903321

Titolo

Colonial exchanges : political theory and the agency of the colonized / / edited by Burke A. Hendrix and Deborah Baumgold

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, England : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-5261-0565-9

1-5261-2814-4

1-5261-2629-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 pages)

Disciplina

325.32

Soggetti

Imperialism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

When European powers colonised the globe, they spread not only political power but also ideas. Yet those within colonised societies did not receive those ideas passively. They instead sought to transform or repurpose them, often in surprising or ambiguous ways. This volume illustrates a variety of examples worthy of further study.