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University of California Press

Colonising Egypt

by Timothy Mitchell (Author)
Paperback eBook
Price: $31.95 / £27.00
Publication Date: Oct 1991
Edition: 1st Edition
Title Details:
Rights: World
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9780520075689
Trim Size: 6 x 9
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About the Book

Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt.

About the Author

Timothy Mitchell is Professor, Department of Middle East and Asian Studies, Columbia University.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations page
Preface to the paperback edition
Acknowledgements

1 Egypt at the exhibition
2 Enframing
3 An appearance of order
4 After we have captured their bodies
5 The machinery of truth
6 The philosophy of the thing

Notes
Select bibliography
Index