Tensions of empire : colonial cultures in a bourgeois world / / edited by Frederick Cooper, Ann Laura Stoler

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910823006003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of CA Press, c1997
• ISBN: 1-283-31138-0; 9786613311382; 0-520-91808-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 470 pages)
• Altri autori (Persone): CooperFrederick <1947->; StolerAnn Laura
• Disciplina: 909.8
• Soggetti: History, Modern - 19th century; History, Modern - 20th century; Imperialism - History - 19th century; Imperialism - History - 20th century; Colonies; Europe History 1789-1900; Europe History 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Between Metropole and Colony -- 1. Liberal Strategies of Exclusion -- 2. Imperialism and Motherhood -- 3. Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse -- 4. Images of Empire, Contests of Conscience -- 5. Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers -- 6. "The Conversion of Englishmen and the Conversion of the World Inseparable" -- 7. Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the German Colonial Empire -- 8. "Le bebe en brousse" -- 9. Tradition in the Service of Modernity -- 10. Educating Conformity in French Colonial Algeria -- 11. he Difference-Deferral of a Colonial Modernity -- 12. The Dialectics of Decolonization -- 13. Cars Out of Place -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Starting with the premise that Europe was made by its imperial projects ; as much as colonial encounters were shaped by events and conflicts in Europe, the contributors to Tensions of Empire investigate metropolitan-colonial relationships from a new perspective. The fifteen essays demonstrate various ways in which "civilizing missions" in both metropolis and colony provided new sites for clarifying a bourgeois order. Focusing on the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, they show how new definitions of modernity and welfare were developed and how new discourses and practices of inclusion and exclusion were contested and worked out. The contributors argue that colonial studies can no longer be confined to the units of analysis on which it once relied; instead of being the study of "the colonized," it must account for the shifting political terrain on which the very categories of colonized and colonizer have been shaped and patterned at different times.