Description Starting with the premise that Europe was made by its imperial projects as much as Colonial encounters were shaped by events and conflicts in Europe, the contributors to Tensions of Empire investigate metropolitan-Colonial relationships from a new perspective.
Focusing on the eighteenth, nineteenth, and ea.
The fifteen essays demonstrate various ways in which "civilizing missions" in both metropolis and colony provided new sites for clarifying a Bourgeois order.
Description Starting with the premise that Europe was made by its imperial projects as much as Colonial encounters were shaped by events and conflicts in Europe, the contributors to Tensions of Empire investigate metropolitan-Colonial relationships from a new perspective