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Autore: | Mitchell Timothy <1955-> |
Titolo: | Colonising Egypt / / Timothy Mitchell |
Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 1991 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xviii, 218 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina: | 303.48/26204 |
Soggetto geografico: | Egypt History |
Egypt Relations Europe | |
Europe Relations Egypt | |
Egypt Civilization 1798- | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Colonising Egypt |
ISBN: | 1-280-07899-5 |
9786613520197 | |
0-520-91166-0 | |
0-585-11672-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910455073503321 |
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