Tensions of empire [electronic resource] : colonial cultures in a bourgeois world / edited by Frederick Cooper, Ann Laura Stoler.

Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, c1997.

1 online resource (xii, 470 p.) : ill.

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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.

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May 06, 2016

Includes bibliographical references and index.