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Colonising 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.
Print Book, English, ©1988
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©1988
xviii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780520075689, 0520075684
23654997
Egypt at the exhibition
Enframing
An appearance of order
After we have captured their bodies
The machinery of truth
The philosophy of the thing