This book forms part of the scholarly rejection of the 'experts' of
empire and calls for us to centre our understanding of colonial
praxis upon the lives of the colonised peoples of the past and the
present. Western publics are constantly being told by 'experts'
that they ought to rethink the history of empire. They are told
that their (presumed) guilt regarding their countries' imperial
pasts can be assuaged: if people were only able to deploy a
'balanced scorecard' they would then recognise that imperialists
brought roads as well as death, schools as well as national
borders, and hospitals as well as racialised forms of ethnic
conflict. Building around an essay by the Algerian writer Hosni
Kitouni (here translated into English for the first time), this
book shows how the genre and forms of imperial history mirror the
actions of colonists and the documents they left behind, erasing
the suffering of indigenous people and the after-effects of empire,
which last into the present and will continue into the future. This
book was originally published as a special issue of Rethinking
History.
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