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Frederick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler, eds., Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xii + 470 pp. $19.95 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2001

James E. Genova
James E. Genova
Affiliation:
State University of New York at Stony Brook
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Abstract

There has been renewed interest among scholars in the study of colonial encounters between Europe and the world it dominated and helped to shape. Tensions of Empire is an important and unique contribution to this rethinking of the colonial experience. A mixture of previously published papers and new work, the book consists of an introductory essay authored by the editors and thirteen chapters grouped in four parts. This structure gives the book an internal consistency that belies its nature as a collection of essays treating colonial experiences from Southeast Asia to South Africa and the resonance of colonial engagements within the geographic space of the metropolitan powers.

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International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 55 , April 1999 , pp. 154 - 156
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© 1999 The International Labor and Working-Class History Society

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