Empires and Boundaries: Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settings (Routledge Studies in Cultural History) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415541255 ISBN 13: 9780415541251

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

Empires and Boundaries: Rethinking Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settings is an exciting collection of original essays exploring the meaning and existence of conflicting and coexisting hierarchies in colonial settings. With investigations into the colonial past of a diversity of regions – including South Asia, South-East Asia, and Africa – the dozen notable international scholars collected here offer a truly inter-disciplinary approach to understanding the structures and workings of power in British, French, Dutch, German, and Italian colonial contexts.

Integrating a historical approach with perspectives and theoretical tools specific to disciplines such as social anthropology, literary and film studies, and gender studies, Empires and Boundaries: Rethinking Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settings, is a striking and ambitious contribution to the scholarship of imperialism and post-colonialism and an essential read for anyone interested in the revolution being undergone in these fields of study.

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About the Author

Harald Fischer-Tiné is Professor of History at Jacobs University, Bremen. He holds a PhD in South Asian History from Heidelberg University (2000) and has published extensively on the social and cultural history of the British Raj and varieties of Hindu reform and Hindu nationalism in 19^th and 20^th century India. He is the author of Low & Licentious Europeans: White Subalternity in Colonial India (2008) and has co-edited Colonialism as Civilizing Mission (2004)

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415541255
• ISBN 13: 9780415541251
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 254
• Editor: Fischer-Tiné Harald