Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times

by Ann Laura Stoler

Book Overview

How do colonial histories matter to the urgencies and conditions of our current world? How have those histories so often been rendered as leftovers, as "legacies" of a dead past rather than as active and violating forces in the world today? With precision and clarity, Ann Laura Stoler argues that recognizing "colonial presence" may have as much to do with how the connections between colonial histories and the present are expected to look as it does...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822362678
• ISBN13: 9780822362678
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"