Imperial formations

Author(s)

• Stoler, Ann Laura
• McGranahan, Carole
• Perdue, Peter C.
• Burbank, Jane

Bibliographic Information

Imperial formations

edited by Ann Laura Stoler, Carole McGranahan, and Peter C. Perdue ; [contributors, Jane Burbank ... et al.]

（School of American Research advanced seminar series）

School for Advanced Research Press , J. Currey, 2007

1st ed

• : pbk : School for Advanced Research Press
• : paper : J. Currey

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-420) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: paper : J. Currey ISBN 9781847012005

Description

This collection moves beyond the Euro-centric slant of colonial studies to compare European and non-European empires with socialist states and empire beyond colonialism. The contributors to this volume criticise and abandon the assumption that European colonialism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centureis can be taken as the representative form of imperialism. Recasting the study of imperial governance, forms of sovereignty,and the imperialstate, the authors pay close attention to non-European empires and the active trade in ideas, practices, and technologies, as well as between metropolitan regions and far flung colonies. North America: School for Advanced Research Press

Table of Contents

• Introduction: refiguring imperial terrains by Ann Stoler & Carole McGranahan
• I THE PRODUCTION & PROTECTION OF DIFFERENCE Bringing America back into the Middle East: a history of the first American missionary encounter with the Ottoman Arab world by Ussama Makdisi
• The rights of difference: law & citizenship in the Russian empire by Jane Burbank
• The Soviet Union as an imperial formation: a view from Central Asia by Adeeb Khalid
• Erasing the empire, re-racing the nation: racialism & culturalism in imperial China by Peter C. Perdue
• II RETHINKING BOUNDARIES, IMAGINARIES, EMPIRES Empire out of bounds: Tibet in the era of decolonization by Carole McGranahan
• The imperialism of 'free nations': Japan, Manchukuo, and the history of the present by Prasenjit Duara
• After empire: reflections on imperialism from the Americas by Fernando Cornil
• III NEW GENEALOGIES OF THE IMPERIAL STATE Modern inquisitions by Irene Silverblatt
• Imperial sovereignty by Nicholas Dirks
• Provincializing France by Frederick Cooper.

Volume

: pbk : School for Advanced Research Press ISBN 9781930618732

Description

The contributors to this volume critique and abandon the limiting assumption that the European colonialism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries can be taken as the representative form of imperialism. Recasting the study of imperial governance, forms of sovereignty, and the imperial state, the authors pay close attention to non-European empires and the active trade in ideas, practices, and technologies among empires, as well as between metropolitan regions and far-flung colonies. The Ottoman, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, and Japanese empires provide provocative case studies that challenge the temporal and conceptual framework within which colonial studies usually operates. Was the Soviet Union an empire or a nation-state? What of Tibet, only recently colonized but long engaged with several imperial powers? Imperial Formations alters our understanding of past empires the better to understand the way that complex history shapes the politics of the present imperial juncture.

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• NCID: BA8674219X
• ISBN:
  • 9781930618732
  • 9781847012005
• LCCN: 2007005550
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Santa Fe, N.M.,Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 429 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : D210
  • DC22 : 325/.32
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Imperialism -- History
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00815427