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Author: Ewa M. Thompson Publisher: Praeger ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 256
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While Western literature has long reflected the techniques of power that privileged the colonial masters and their point of view, Russian fictional and nonfictional texts have escaped such scrutiny because Russia is not generally considered a colonial power. In arguing that Russia's long history of territorial expansion is a form of colonization, this book uses postcolonial theory to examine Russian literature and the power structures reflected in it. Among the authors discussed are Pushkin, Lermontov, Tolstoy, and Solzhenitsyn.
Author: Ewa M. Thompson Publisher: Praeger ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 256
Book Description
While Western literature has long reflected the techniques of power that privileged the colonial masters and their point of view, Russian fictional and nonfictional texts have escaped such scrutiny because Russia is not generally considered a colonial power. In arguing that Russia's long history of territorial expansion is a form of colonization, this book uses postcolonial theory to examine Russian literature and the power structures reflected in it. Among the authors discussed are Pushkin, Lermontov, Tolstoy, and Solzhenitsyn.
Author: Ann Laura Stoler Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520231115 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 356
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Looking at the way cultural competencies and sensibilities entered into the construction of race in the colonial context, this text proposes that 'cultural racism' in fact predates its postmodern discovery.
Author: Nivi Manchanda Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108491235 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 265
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An innovative exploration of how colonial interventions in Afghanistan have been made possible through representations of the country as 'backward'.
Author: James Hevia Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139510444 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 313
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The Imperial Security State explores an important but under-explored dimension of British imperialism - its information system and the close links between military knowledge and the maintenance of empire. James Hevia's innovative study focuses on route books and military reports produced by the British Indian Army military intelligence between 1880 and 1940. He shows that together these formed a renewable and authoritative archive that was used to train intelligence officers, to inform civilian policy makers and to provide vital information to commanders as they approached the battlefield. The strategic, geographical, political and ethnographical knowledge that was gathered not only framed imperial strategies towards colonized areas to the east but also produced the very object of intervention: Asia itself. Finally, the book addresses the long-term impact of the security regime, revealing how elements of British colonial knowledge have continued to influence contemporary tactics of counterinsurgency in twenty-first-century Iraq and Afghanistan.
Author: Thomas Richards Publisher: Verso ISBN: 9780860916055 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 196
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Argues that by meeting the vast administrative challenge of the British Empire - thorough maps and surveys, censuses and statistics - Victorian administrators developed a new symbiosis of knowledge and power. The book draws on works by Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells and Bram Stoker.
Author: Martin J. Bayly Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107118050 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 351
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A new perspective on empire, international relations and foreign policy through attention to British colonial knowledge on Afghanistan from 1808 to 1878.
Author: Lisa Voigt Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 0807831999 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 353
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Drawing on texts written by and about European and Euro-American captives in a variety of languages and genres, Lisa Voigt explores the role of captivity in the production of knowledge, identity, and authority in the early modern imperial world. The pr
Author: Roland Cvetkovski Publisher: Central European University Press ISBN: 6155225761 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 415
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Ethnographers helped to perceive, to understand and also to shape imperial as well as Soviet Russia?s cultural diversity. This volume focuses on the contexts in which ethnographic knowledge was created. Usually, ethnographic findings were superseded by imperial discourse: Defining regions, connecting them with ethnic origins and conceiving national entities necessarily implied the mapping of political and historical hierarchies. But beyond these spatial conceptualizations the essays particularly address the specific conditions in which ethnographic knowledge appeared and changed. On the one hand, they turn to the several fields into which ethnographic knowledge poured and materialized, i.e., history, historiography, anthropology or ideology. On the other, they equally consider the impact of the specific formats, i.e., pictures, maps, atlases, lectures, songs, museums, and exhibitions, on academic as well as non-academic manifestations.
Author: U. Hillemann Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230246753 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 273
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British knowledge about China changed fundamentally in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Rather than treating these changes in British understanding as if Anglo-Sino relations were purely bilateral, this study looks at how British imperial networks in India and Southeast Asia were critical mediators in the British encounter of China.
Author: Ewa M. Thompson
Author: Ewa M. Thompson
Author: Ann Laura Stoler
Author: Nivi Manchanda
Author: James Hevia
Author: Thomas Richards
Author: Tim Whitmarsh
Author: Martin J. Bayly
Author: Lisa Voigt
Author: Roland Cvetkovski
Author: U. Hillemann