Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688–1804 (Post-Contemporary Interventions)

by SrinivasAravamudan (Author)

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  Illustrated
  1999

  $49.06

  Aims to reconstruct the colonial imagination of the eighteenth century. By exploring representations of peoples and cultures subjected to colonial discourse, the author makes a case for the agency - or the capacity to resist domination - of those oppressed. He reveals the development of anticolonial consciousness prior to the nineteenth century.