Reading the Global : Troubling Perspectives on Britain's Empire in Asia.
The global is an instituted perspective, not just an empirical process. Adopted initially by the British in order to make sense of their polyglot territorial empire, the global perspective served to make heterogeneous spaces and nonwhite subjects ""legible, "" and in effect produ...
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Columbia University Press
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover13;
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: How to Read the Global
- 1. Adam Smith and the Claims of Subsistence
- 2. Opium Confessions: Narcotic, Commodity, and the Malay Amuk
- 3. Native Agent: Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir8217;s Global Perspective
- 4. Animality and the Global Subject in Conrad8216;s Lord Jim
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.