Empire, Colony, Postcolony by Young, Robert J. C.

Empire, Colony, Postcolony (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781405193559)

Vendor: Robert J. C. Young
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$27.95
$27.95
$27.95
Subtotal: $27.95
Empire, Colony, Postcolony by Young, Robert J. C.

Empire, Colony, Postcolony

$27.95
Empire, Colony, Postcolony by Young, Robert J. C.

Empire, Colony, Postcolony

$27.95
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
x

Empire, Colony, Postcolony provides a clear exposition of the historical, political and ideological dimensions of colonialism, imperialism, and postcolonialism, with clear explanations of these categories, which relate their histories to contemporary political issues. The book analyzes major concepts and explains the meaning of key terms.

  • The first book to introduce the main historical and cultural parameters of the different categories of empire, colony, postcolony, nation, and globalization and the ways in which they are analyzed today
  • Explains in clear and accessible language the historical and theoretical origins of postcolonial theory as well as providing a postcolonial perspective on the formations of the contemporary world
  • Written by an acknowledged expert on postcolonialism


Author: Robert J. C. Young
ISBN-10: 1405193557
ISBN-13: 9781405193559
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 09/08/2015
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.50d
By Robert J. C. Young
By Robert J. C. Young
x

Robert J.C. Young, FBA, is Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University. His writing ranges across the fields of cultural and political history, literature, philosophy, photography, psychoanalysis and translation studies, with a particular focus on colonial history and postcolonial theory. His publications include White Mythologies: Writing History and the West (1990), Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Culture, Theory and Race (1995), Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction (Wiley, 2001), Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (2003), and The Idea of English Ethnicity (Wiley, 2008). He is the editor of Interventions International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.

Recently Viewed Products