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Colonialism and Culture

By Nicholas B. Dirks

Book information

Publisher
University of Michigan Pres
Year
1992
ISBN
0472064347, 9780472064342
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
25 MB (26165891 bytes)
Pages
402\420
Time added
2020-08-09 13:20:33

Description

Colonialism has had cultural effects that have too often been ignored or displaced onto the inexorable logics of modernization and world capitalism. The articles in this important volume explore the multifaced nature of colonialism and its cultural manifestations and treat the unspoken values, hidden assumptions, and buried connections out of which states are made and power is simultaneously exercised and thwarted. The contributors consider explorers' accounts, missions and conversion, peasant resistance, torture, law, labor, and agriculture, among other issues, using examples that range from South America to Sumatra, from Africa to the Philippines, from India to the metropolitan centers of colonial rule.

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