Colonialism In Question: Theory, Knowledge, History - Rilegato

Cooper, Frederick

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ISBN 10: 0520242149 ISBN 13: 9780520242142

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 2005

Riassunto

In this closely integrated collection of essays on colonialism in world history, Frederick Cooper raises crucial questions about concepts relevant to a wide range of issues in the social sciences and humanities, including identity, globalization, and modernity. Rather than portray the past two centuries as the inevitable movement from empire to nation-state, Cooper places nationalism within a much wider range of imperial and diasporic imaginations, of rulers and ruled alike, well into the twentieth century. He addresses both the insights and the blind spots of colonial studies in an effort to get beyond the tendency in the field to focus on a generic colonialism located sometime between 1492 and the 1960s and somewhere in the "West." Broad-ranging, cogently argued, and with a historical focus that moves from Africa to South Asia to Europe, these essays, most published here for the first time, propose a fuller engagement in the give-and-take of history, not least in the ways in which concepts usually attributed to Western universalismincluding citizenship and equalitywere defined and reconfigured by political mobilizations in colonial contexts.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Frederick Cooper, Professor of History at New York University, is author ofAfrica since 1940: The Past of the Present (2002) and coeditor, with Ann Laura Stoler, ofTensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (California, 1997), among other books.

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"Probably the most important historian of Africa currently writing in the English language. His intellectual reach and ambition have even taken influence far beyond African studies as such, and he has become one of the major voices contributing to debates over empire, colonialism and their aftermaths. This book is a call to reinvigorate the critical way in which history can be written. Cooper takes on many of the standard beliefs passing as postcolonial theory and breathes fresh air onto them."Michael Watts, Director of the Institute of International Studies, Berkeley

"This is a very much needed book: on Africa, on intellectual artisanship and on engagement in emancipatory projects. Drawing on his enormous erudition in colonial history, Cooper brings together an intellectual and a moral-political argument against a series of linked developments that privilege 'taking a stance' and in favor of studying processes of struggle through engaged scholarship."Jane I. Guyer, author ofMarginal Gains

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0520242149
• ISBN 13: 9780520242142
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 327
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile