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Publisher description of Colonialism in Question
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The University of California Press description and contents for the book; it is not the book text.
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Cooper's publisher summary attributes to the book an account of citizenship and equality being reconfigured through political mobilizations in colonial contexts.
- supports · publisher ‘About the Book,’ paragraphs 1–3
Cooper warns that treating colonialism as an all-purpose explanatory category can obscure the specific institutions, struggles, and political alternatives operating in a place and period.
- supports · publisher ‘About the Book,’ paragraphs 1–3
The publisher summary of Cooper's book rejects portraying the past two centuries as an inevitable movement from empire to nation-state and instead notes wider imperial and diasporic political imaginations.
- supports · publisher ‘About the Book,’ paragraphs 1–3