Reading the Global : : Troubling Perspectives on Britain's Empire in Asia / / Sanjay Krishnan.
The global is an instituted perspective, not just an empirical process. Adopted initially by the British in order to make sense of their polyglot territorial empire, the global perspective served to make heterogeneous spaces and nonwhite subjects "legible," and in effect produced the regio...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2007] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: How to Read the Global
- 1. Adam Smith and the Claims of Subsistence
- 2. Opium Confessions: Narcotic, Commodity, and the Malay Amuk
- 3. Native Agent: Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir's Global Perspective
- 4. Animality and the Global Subject in Conrad's Lord Jim
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index