Shadows of empire: colonial discourse and Javanese tales 9780822316855, 9780822316978

Shadows of Empire: Colonial Discourse and Javanese Tales 9780822398042

Shadows of Empire explores Javanese shadow theater as a staging area for negotiations between colonial power and indigen

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The Rhetoric of Empire: Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing, and Imperial Administration 9780822398646

The white man's burden, darkest Africa, the seduction of the primitive: such phrases were widespread in the languag

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Javanese Shadow Plays, Javanese Selves 9781400886722

As with many performing arts in Asia, neither the highly stylized images of the Javanese shadow play nor its musical com

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The Making of a Bureacratic Elite. The Colonial Transformation of Javanese Priyayi 0708118143, 0708118151

Asian Studies Association of Australia, Southeast Asia Publications Series, No. 2

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Europe and Its Shadows: Coloniality After Empire 0745338402, 9780745338408

Europe has long imagined itself as the centre of the universe, although its precise geographical, cultural and social te

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Europe and Its Shadows: Coloniality after Empire 0745338402, 9780745338408

Europe has long imagined itself as the centre of the universe, although its precise geographical, cultural and social te

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Echoes of Empire: Memory, Identity and Colonial Legacies 9780755624270, 9780857726292

How does our colonial past echo through today's global politics? How have former empire-builders sought vindication

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Engines of Empire: Steamshipping and State Formation in Colonial Indonesia

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Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico 9781503627109

Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico shows how Indian litigants and petitioners made sense of Spanish leg

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Sati: Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries, and the Changing Colonial Discourse 9788173055522

This is not a work on sati per se. It does not address, in any depth, issues of the possible origins of the rite; its vo

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