
Contact, Conquest and Colonization
How Practices of Comparing Shaped Empires and Colonialism Around the World
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- English
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Contact, Conquest and Colonization
How Practices of Comparing Shaped Empires and Colonialism Around the World
About this book
Contact, Conquest and Colonization brings together international historians and literary studies scholars in order to explore the force of practices of comparing in shaping empires and colonial relations at different points in time and around the globe.
Whenever there was cultural contact in the context of European colonization and empire-building, historical records teem with comparisons among those cultures. This edited volume focuses on what historical agents actually do when they compare, rather than on comparison as an analytic method. Its contributors are thus interested in the 'doing of comparison', and explore the force of these practices of comparing in shaping empires and (post-)colonial relations between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries.
This book will appeal to students and scholars of global history, as well as those interested in cultural history and the history of colonialism.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: On ‘Doing Comparison’ – Practices of Comparing
- Part I Women, Marriage Practices, and Morals
- Part II Politics, Polemics, and Propaganda
- Part III Literature, Science, and Literary Discourse
- Part IV Race, Civilization, and Religion
- Concluding Observations: Modes of Comparing and Communities of Practice
- Index