Colonising Egypt / Timothy Mitchell.

By:

Mitchell, Timothy, 1955-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1988.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 218 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780520911666
0520911660
0585116725
9780585116723

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Colonising Egypt.DDC classification:

303.48/26204 20

LOC classification:

DT100 .M57 1988eb

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Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Preface to the paperback edition; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Egypt at the Exhibition; Chapter 2: Enframing; Chapter 3: An Appearance of Order; Chapter 4: After we have Captured their Bodies; Chapter 5: The Machinery of Truth; Chapter 6: The Philosophy of the Thing; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.

Summary: Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-213) and index.

Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt.

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