Colonising Egypt: With a New PrefaceExtending 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. |
Contents
Egypt at the exhibition | 1 |
Enframing | 34 |
An appearance of order | 63 |
After we have captured their bodies | 95 |
The machinery of truth | 128 |
The philosophy of the thing | 161 |
Notes | 180 |
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