Colonising Egypt /
Timothy Mitchell.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, �1988.
- 1 online resource (xviii, 218 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-213) and index.
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.
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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