Empire, Development and Colonialism - The Past in the Present (Paperback)

This book makes a unique contribution to the renewed debate about empire and imperialism and will be of great interest to all those concerned with understanding the historical antecedents and wider implications of today's emergentliberal interventionism, and the various logics of international development. This collection explores the similarities, differences and overlaps between the contemporary debates on international development and humanitarian intervention and the historical artefacts and strategies of Empire. It includes views by historians and students of politics and development, drawing on a range of methodologies and approaches. The parallels between the language of nineteenth-century liberal imperialism and the humanitarian interventionism of the post-Cold War era are striking. The American military, both in Somalia in the early 1990s and in the aftermath the Iraq invasion, used ethnographic information compiled by British colonial administrators. Are these interconnections, which are capable of endless multiplication, accidental curiosities or more elemental? The contributors to this book articulate the belief that these comparisons are not just anecdotal but are analytically revealing.From the language of moral necessity and conviction, the design of specific aid packages; the devised forms of intervention and governmentality, through to the life-style, design and location of NGO encampments, the authors seek to account for the numerous and often striking parallels between contemporary international security, development and humanitarian intervention, and the logic of Empire. MARK DUFFIELD is Professor of Development Politicsat the University of Bristol; VERNON HEWITT is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bristol Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia): HSRC Press

General

Imprint:	James Currey
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2013
First published:	October 2013
Editors:	Mark Duffield • Vernon Hewitt
Authors:	Vernon Hewitt
Contributors:	Mark Duffield • Vernon Hewitt • Matt Merefield • Henrik Aspengren • Suthaharan Nadarajah • Richard Sheldon • Lisa Smirl
Dimensions:	235 x 158 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	211
ISBN-13:	978-1-84701-077-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism Books > History > World history > General
LSN:	1-84701-077-6
Barcode:	9781847010773

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