Spatial appropriations in modern empires, 1820-1960 :: beyond dispossession /

This book provides fresh insights into colonial and imperial histories by focusing on spatial appropriations. Moving away from European notions of property, appropriation encompasses the many ways in which social actors consider a space as their own. This space may be physical or immaterial, public...

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Weitere Verfasser: Guignard, Didier (HerausgeberIn), Seri-Hersch, Iris (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019
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Zusammenfassung:This book provides fresh insights into colonial and imperial histories by focusing on spatial appropriations. Moving away from European notions of property, appropriation encompasses the many ways in which social actors consider a space as their own. This space may be physical or immaterial, public or intimate, lived or imagined. In modern empires, spatial appropriations amounted neither to a material and violent dispossession orchestrated by European or Japanese powers, nor to an ongoing and unquestioned resistance by subaltern peoples. They were rather sites of complex interactions, in which ...
Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 351 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9781527540156
1527540154
1527536696
9781527536692

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