| Description |
1 online resource (319 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series |
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Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Engaging Colonial Knowledge; Part I Epistemic Fissures; 1 'In Cold Blood': Hierarchies of Credibility and the Politics of Colonial Narratives; 2 North Indian Lives in the Archives of the Colonial State; 3 Reading Farm and Forest: Colonial Forest Science and Policy in Southern Nigeria; Part II Indigenous Voices and Colonial Records; 4 Insights from the 'Ancient Word': The Use of Colonial Sources in the Study of Aztec Society |
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5 'In Unrestrained Conversation': Approvers and the Colonial Ethnography of Crime in Nineteenth-Century India6 From Civil Servant to Little King: An Indigenous Construction of Colonial Authority in Early Nineteenth-Century South India; 7 French Anthropology and the Durkheimians in Colonial Indochina; Part III Archives of Entanglement; 8 Treachery and Ethnicity in Portuguese Representations of Sri Lanka; 9 William Hodges As Anthropologist and Historian; 10 Entangled with Otherness: Military Ethnographies of Headhunting in East Timor |
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11 'What Do You Really Want in German East Africa, Herr Professor?' Counterinsurgency and the Science Effect in Colonial TanzaniaIndex |
| Summary |
Presenting a set of rich case-studies which demonstrate novel and productive approaches to the study of colonial knowledge, this volume covers British, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish colonial encounters in Africa, Asia, America and the Pacific, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Colonialism & imperialism.
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General & world history.
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Historiography.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
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HISTORY -- World.
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History.
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Historiography
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Colonies -- Historiography -- Case studies
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wagner, Kim A., editor.
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| ISBN |
9780230360075 |
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0230360076 |
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