Rethinking the History of Empire

ISBN-13: 9780367276584 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 116 str.

William Gallois

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This book forms part of the scholarly rejection of the ‘experts’ of empire and calls for us to centre our understanding of colonial praxis upon the lives of the colonised peoples of the past and the present. This book was originally published as a special issue of Rethinking History.

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Introduction William Gallois 1. Naming the suffering of victims in the French conquest of Algeria Hosni Kitouni and William Gallois 2. Palestine sine tempore Yara Hawari 3. Where does colonialism come from? Lorenzo Veracini 4. The making of the Congo question: truth-telling, denial and ‘colonial science’ in King Leopold’s commission of inquiry on the rubber atrocities in the Congo Free State (1904–1905) Berber Bevernage 5. The lexical violence of imperial culture William Gallois