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Titolo |
Engaging Colonial Knowledge [[electronic resource] ] : Reading European Archives in World History / / edited by R. Roque, K. Wagner |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-36127-2 |
9786613361271 |
0-230-36007-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2012.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (319 p.) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, , 2635-1633 |
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Disciplina |
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325.30722 |
909.09712 |
909/.09712 |
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Soggetti |
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Asia—History |
World history |
Imperialism |
Africa—History |
History, Modern |
Historiography |
Asian History |
World History, Global and Transnational History |
Imperialism and Colonialism |
African History |
Modern History |
Historiography and Method |
Europe Colonies Historiography Congresses |
Europe Colonies History Archival resources Congresses |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Includes papers originally presented at the workshop "Beyond Deconstruction : Engaging Colonial Knowledge", held at King's College, Cambridge, in Sept. 2006, as well as some post-conference papers. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : engaging colonial knowledge / Ricardo Roque and Kim A. Wagner -- "In cold blood" : hierarchies of credibility and the politics of |
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colonial narratives / Ann Laura Stoler -- North Indian lives in the archives of the colonial state / Leigh Denault -- Reading farm and forest : colonial forest science and policy in southern Nigeria / Pauline von Hellermann -- Insights from the "ancient word" : the use of colonial sources in the study of Aztec society / Caroline Dodds Pennock -- "In unrestrained conversation" : approvers and the colonial ethnography of crime in nineteenth-century India / Kim A. Wagner -- From civil servant to little king : an indigenous construction of colonial authority in early nineteenth-century south India / Niels Brimnes -- French anthropology and the Durkheimians in colonial Indochina / Susan Bayly -- Treachery and ethnicity in Portuguese representations of Sri Lanka / Alan Strathern -- William hodges as anthropologist and historian / Nicholas Thomas -- Entangled with otherness : military ethnographies of headhunting in East Timor / Ricardo Roque -- "What do you really want in German East Africa, Herr Professor?" : counterinsurgency and the science effect in colonial Tanzania / Andrew Zimmerman. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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