Imperial and Colonial Encounters: Some Reflections

The past few decades have seen no lessening in the intensity of debates and discussions concerning the place of empires in the early modern and modern worlds. These debates have if anything been aggravated, and at times grown more confused in their conceptual terms, partly because of the advent of...

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Autor principal: Subrahmanyam, Sanjay
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicat: Nuevo mundo mundos nuevos 2005
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Accés en línia:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sumari:The past few decades have seen no lessening in the intensity of debates and discussions concerning the place of empires in the early modern and modern worlds. These debates have if anything been aggravated, and at times grown more confused in their conceptual terms, partly because of the advent of the current known as ‘post-colonial studies’, in which historians of India have played a quite significant part. Three issues seem to be central in these debates, and I shall address each of them i...