Empire, Colony, Postcolony

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Empire, Colony, Postcolony provides a clear exposition of the historical, political and ideological dimensions of colonialism, imperialism, and postcolonialism, with clear explanations of these categories, which relate their histories to contemporary political issues. The book analyzes major concepts and explains the meaning of key terms. * The first book to introduce the main historical and cultural parameters of the different categories of empire, colony, postcolony, nation, and globalization and the ways in which they are analyzed today * Explains in clear and accessible language the historical and theoretical origins of postcolonial theory as well as providing a postcolonial perspective on the formations of the contemporary world * Written by an acknowledged expert on postcolonialism Robert JC Young, FBA, is Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University. His writing ranges across the fields of cultural and political history, literature, philosophy, photography, psychoanalysis and translation studies, with a particular focus on colonial history and postcolonial theory. His publications include White Mythologies: Writing History and the West (1990), Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Culture, Theory and Race (1995), Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction (Wiley, 2001), Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (2003), and The Idea of English Ethnicity (Wiley, 2008). He is the editor of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. Title Page......Page 5 Copyright Page......Page 6 Contents......Page 9 Acknowledgments......Page 10 I......Page 15 II......Page 16 Note......Page 20 Chapter 2 Empire......Page 21 Empire and Civilization......Page 24 The Geography of Empire: Land vs. Global Maritime Empires......Page 27 The Governance of Empire......Page 31 Two Models of Empire......Page 33 Empires and Diversity......Page 37 Notes......Page 39 The Temporality of Colonization......Page 41 The Colony as Settlement......Page 42 Colonization, Migration, and Indigenous Peoples......Page 45 Colonizer and Colonized: Intimate Enemies......Page 47 The Colony as Trading Factory......Page 50 The Colony as the Laboratory of Modernity......Page 52 Note......Page 55 Slavery......Page 56 Race......Page 59 Note......Page 65 Chapter 5 Colonialism and Imperialism......Page 66 Colonialism......Page 67 Imperialism......Page 72 Imperialism without Colonies......Page 77 The Nation as the Product of Colonial Expansion......Page 80 The Nation and Human Rights......Page 85 The Nation, Human Rights, and Slavery......Page 87 Notes......Page 90 Chapter 7 Nationalism......Page 91 Anticolonialism......Page 99 Anticolonial Nationalism: Italy and Ireland......Page 102 The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917......Page 106 Strategies of Resistance: Rebellion or Reform......Page 108 Culture as Soft Power......Page 110 On National Culture......Page 113 Phase One: 1776–1826......Page 117 Phase Two: 1826–1945......Page 120 Phase Three: 1945–Present......Page 127 Neo-colonialism......Page 131 Globalization: Free Trade and Advanced Technology......Page 133 Economics......Page 135 Politics and Human Rights......Page 137 The University......Page 140 The Anti-Globalization Movements......Page 141 Islamism......Page 143 Planetarity......Page 145 Notes......Page 148 Chapter 11 Postcolony......Page 149 The Postcolony as Former Colony......Page 152 Ethnic Diversity......Page 153 Law, Education, and Language......Page 154 The Settler Postcolony......Page 156 The Postcolony as a Zone of Dysfunction......Page 158 Notes......Page 162 Chapter 12 Postcolonialism......Page 163 Knowledge and Theory......Page 165 Orientalism......Page 167 Culture......Page 169 Language and Translation......Page 173 Race, Ethnicity, Identity......Page 175 Subalternity......Page 178 Indigeneity......Page 182 Nomadism......Page 185 Migration......Page 186 Notes......Page 190 References......Page 192 Name Index......Page 205 Subject Index......Page 209 EULA......Page 223