Sir John Malcolm and the Creation of British India

ISBN-13: 9780230108851 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 253 str.

Jack Harrington

Opis

Can modernity be imagined as a "war on affect" propelled by the unequal distribution of guilt and fear as major forces of containment? Exploring Walter Benjamin's early texts on violence and religion and bringing them to bear upon contemporary struggles, Herlinghaus argues that the flexible production of affective marginalities lies at the heart of the psycho-cultural dynamics of globalization. Analyzing new imaginaries in Latin American literature, music and film, Violence Without Guilt examines how ethical experience is being drastically reshaped in the realms where violence is an existential reality, especially in the lives and fantasies of those who find themselves today unprotected by Western perceptions of lawfulness and citizenship.

Spis treści

Analysing Sir John Malcolm as an Ideologue of the British Empire Sir John Malcolm and the British Empire in India The Political History of India and the Creation of an Historiography of Imperial Conquest Sir John Malcolm and the History of Modern Asia Sir John Malcolm's Memoir of Central India : The Historic Case for Indirect Rule Sir John Malcolm and the Government of India after 1818 The History of the East India Company II: The Life of Robert, Lord Clive British India Before 1857 and the Writings of Sir John Malcolm

O autorze

JACK HARRINGTON has a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is a senior education officer in the charitable sector and continues to write and research on the history of British India.