6. States, Empires, and Political Imagination

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Part I. Colonial Studies and Interdisciplinary Scholarship
6. 1. Introduction: Colonial Questions, Historical Trajectories 3
7. 2. The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Colonial Studies, 1951–2001 33
8. Part II. Concepts in Question
9. 3. Identity: With Rogers Brubaker 59
10. 4. Globalization 91
11. 5. Modernity 113
12. Part III. The Possibilities of History
13. 6. States, Empires, and Political Imagination 153
14. 7. Labor, Politics, and the End of Empire in French Africa 204
15. 8. Conclusion: Colonialism, History, Politics 231
16. Notes 243
17. Index 313