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Tensions of Empire

Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World

By Frederick Cooper,Ann Laura Stoler

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Publish Date

February 6, 1997

Publisher

University of California Press

Language

eng

Pages

463

Description:

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, this volume investigates metropolitan-colonial relationships. It shows how "civilizing missions" often provided new sites for a bourgeois order.