European imperialism, 1830-1930 : climax and contradiction

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[TofC cont.] Indian travellers in Victorian Britain / A. Burton; Colonial workers in France during the Great War / T. Stovall; An Afro-German family / D. Reiprich and E. Ngambi ul Kuo -- Anticoloni...

[TofC cont.] Indian travellers in Victorian Britain / A. Burton; Colonial workers in France during the Great War / T. Stovall; An Afro-German family / D. Reiprich and E. Ngambi ul Kuo -- Anticolonial resistance: Peasant weapons of the weak / J.C. Scott; Wage labor and anticolonial resistance in Colonial Kenya / F. Cooper; Saint or rebel, resistance in French North Africa / J. Clancy-Smith; Imagined community in anticolonial nationalism / B. Anderson; Nation and the home / P. Chatterjee. This book consists principally of thematically organized selections from ... recent historical work on French, British, and Dutch imperialism.... The volume [begins] with a section devoted to several of the classic interpretations and criticisms of empire so that students might better judge for themselves how recent scholarship has changed. The introduction provides a brief overview of a century of historical writing on the subject to orient the reader at the outset. -Pref.

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