Empire, Development and Colonialism: The Past in the Present

by Vernon Hewitt

Book Overview

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?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847010776
• ISBN13: 9781847010773
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: James Currey
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"