Colonising Egypt / Timothy Mitchell.

Author
Mitchell, Timothy, 1955- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Description
x, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Firestone Library - Stacks DT100 .M57 1988 Browse related items Request
    Special Collections - Rare Books RBD1 Box B-000502 Browse related items Reading Room Request

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      Library of Jacques Derrida box B-000502.
      Summary note
      "Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt. Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt."
      Notes
      • Includes index.
      • Derrida copy Includes manuscript material: Letter from author, 4 August 1988.
      • Derrida copy Stored in box B-000502. Forms part of: The Library of Jacques Derrida, House Series. House. Gift Books, Works By and About Derrida, and Related Items.
      Bibliographic references
      Bibliography: p. 208-213.
      Contents
      • Egypt at the exhibition
      • Enframing
      • An appearance of order
      • After we have captured their bodies
      • The machinery of truth
      • The philosophy of the thing.
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      Derrida copy folder 14 4089
      ISBN
      • 0521334489
      • 9780521334488
      • 9780520911666
      • 0520911660
      LCCN
      87018761
      OCLC
      16472360
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