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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.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Engaging Colonial Knowledge
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Indigenous Voices and Colonial Records
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Front Matter
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Archives of Entanglement
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Back Matter
Reviews
"Overall, the contributions emphasise the potential of the colonial archives in providing access to a historical reality through the addition of analytical criticism. The case studies convincingly indicate omissions of 'post-Orientalist' criticism....The high quality of the individual contributions is undeniable." - Nathanael Kuck, Comparativ
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
SUSAN BAYLY Reader in Historical Anthropology, Cambridge University, UK
NIELS BRIMNES Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark
LEIGH DENAULT Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, UK and Research Associate, Centre for History and Economics, King's College, Cambridge, UK
CAROLINE DODDS PENNOCK Lecturer in Early Modern History, the University of Leicester, UK
ANN LAURA STOLER Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies, the Graduate Faculty of The New School for Social Research, New York, USA
ALAN STRATHERN Research Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, UK
NICHOLAS THOMAS Professor of Historical Anthropology and Director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK
PAULINE VON HELLERMANN Research Fellow, the University of York, UK
ANDREW ZIMMERMAN Associate Professor of History, the George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Engaging Colonial Knowledge
Book Subtitle: Reading European Archives in World History
Editors: Ricardo Roque, Kim A. Wagner
Series Title: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230360075
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-24198-5Published: 08 November 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-31766-0Published: 01 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-36007-5Published: 07 November 2011
Series ISSN: 2635-1633
Series E-ISSN: 2635-1641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 306
Topics: Asian History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Imperialism and Colonialism, African History, Modern History, Historiography and Method