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Jeudi 27 août 2020
« Kris Manjapra weaves together the study of colonialism over the past 500 years, across the globe’s continents and seas. This captivating work vividly evokes living human histories, introducing the reader to manifestations of colonialism as expressed through war, militarization, extractive economies, migrations and diasporas, racialization, biopolitical management, and unruly and creative responses and resistances by colonized peoples. This book describes some of the most salient political, social, and cultural constellations of our present times across the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. By exploring the dissimilar, yet entwined, histories of conquest, settler colonialism, racial slavery, and empire, Manjapra exposes the enduring role of colonial force and freedom struggle in the making of our modern »
Kris Manjapra is Associate Professor of History and founding Chair of the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University, Massachusetts. He is the author of M. N. Roy : Marxism and Colonial Cosmopolitanism (2009) and Age of Entanglement : German and Indian Intellectuals across Empire (2014), and editor of Cosmopolitan Thought Zones : South Asia and the Global Circulation of Ideas (with Sugata Bose, 2010).
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