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Tensions of empire

by Frederick Cooper, Ann Laura Stoler

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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, this volume investigates metropolitan-colonial relationships. It shows how "civilizing missions" often provided new sites for a bourgeois order.

EuropeKoloniale periodeHistoire universelleBurgerijImperialismusModern HistorySociale aspectenImperialismGeschichteKolonialismusColoniesImpe rialisme