Imperial secrets : remapping the mind of empire / Patrick A. Kelley.
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- 9781932946208
- Remapping the mind of empire
- JC359 .K45 2008
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Maasai Mara University Library -Main Campus | JC359 .K45 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 17032663 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-223).
[Pt. 1]. Introduction -- An empire of information -- [Pt. 2]. Law, map and text: how empires know -- Thuggee: making the invisible visible -- Sai bil' fesad: fomenting evil in the world -- Rome: concealing and revealing -- Barzakh: the intermediate world -- Rhizomes: unity and multiplicity -- Nomads and states: tent of Osman/House of Osman -- Chrono-politics: the accelerating archive -- Apocalypse: the Sepoy Revolt of 1857 -- [Pt. 3]. Dress, discourse and imagination: How empires learn to know differently -- Masquerade: agents and actors -- Josephus: the "Hellenizing" Glass -- Derive and drift: Evliya Celebi, an Ottoman situationist -- Boukoloi: historicizing fiction/fictionalizing history -- Ekphrasis: showing or telling? -- Boudica: a terrible disaster -- Lessons learned (or rather ... observed).
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