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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction Imperialisms: Early Modern to Premodernist
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Early Modern European Imperialisms: Literary Representations
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Early Imperialisms: East and West
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English and French Imperialisms: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
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German Imperial Philosophies and Practices
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About this book
Reviews
"This diverse and stimulating collection of essays throws a fresh light on the multiple sites of imperialism's reach from the early modern period to 1900. The focus on comparative imperialisms illuminates the crucial distinctions among both European and Asian imperial powers, while also tracking similar strategies of dominance and control. A valuable resource for all those interested in a long-range view of imperial developments." - Gauri Viswanathan, Columbia University, author of Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief
"Our anxious moment of global achievement has ushered in a new age of the politics and poetics of Empire. This complex and contested term represents a crucial turn in revisionary thinking that is nowhere better explored - with greater critical acuity and more creative panache - than in Rajan and Sauer's volume. They have inspired their gifted contributors to engage with the diverse discourses and domains of the Imperial imagination and the result is a collective achievement of great distinction that enables us to frame the troubled Empire of our times with the history that it both needs and deserves." - Homi K. Bhabha, Rothenberg Professor of English, Harvard University
"As the field of postcolonial studies has deepened and matured, scholars throughout the humanities and social sciences have begun to acknowledge the need for complementary investigations in the historical varieties of imperial discourse and practice. Comparative imperialisms: Balachandra Rajan and Elizabeth Sauer have commissioned an exemplary series of essays in just this cross-disciplinary field. This volume brings together the work of leading scholars in half a dozen national literatures, in cultural history, in music, in political science; its purview extends over four hundred years and, significantly, to the Asian as well as the European and transAtlantic theatres of empire. It will be an invaluable resource for all those interested in the intersecting force fields of mercantilist, colonial, and religious ambition; the reciprocal ideologies of nationalism and modern empire; and the emergent discourses of race, modernity, competing conversions, and profit." - Linda Gregerson, Frederick G. L. Heutwell Professor of English, University of Michigan, and author of The Reformation of the Subject
About the authors
BALACHANDRA RAJAN is Professor Emeritus at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She is also an Honored Scholar of the Milton Society and a Fellow and Medallist of the Royal Society of Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Imperialisms
Book Subtitle: Historical and Literary Investigations, 1500-1900
Editors: Balachandra Rajan, Elizabeth Sauer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403980465
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6520-2Published: 17 November 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-52878-3Published: 17 November 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-8046-5Published: 28 October 2004
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 301
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, Postcolonial/World Literature, Imperialism and Colonialism, Twentieth-Century Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature