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The colonial present : Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq

Title: The colonial present : Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq / Derek Gregory.
Author: Gregory, Derek, 1951-
Publication: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.

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Description

xix, 367 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"In this critique of the "war on terror" in Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq, Derek Gregory traces the long history of British and American involvements in the Middle East. He argues that the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11 activated a series of political and cultural responses that mapped a profoundly colonial perimeter of power. The Colonial Present traces the connections between political, military, and economic power - the grand strategies of geopolitics - and the spatial stories told by the lives of ordinary people. It also shows the intimate connections between events in Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq."--BOOK JACKET.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-357) and index.

Contents

1. The colonial present -- 2. Architectures of enmity -- 3. "The land where red tulips grew" -- 4. "Civilization" and "barbarism" -- 5. Barbed boundaries -- 6. Defiled cities -- 7. The tyranny of strangers -- 8. Boundless war -- 9. Gravity's rainbows.

ISBN

1577180895 (hard cover : alk. paper)
9781577180890 (hard cover : alk. paper)
1577180909 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781577180906 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2003026672

OCLC

ocm53896593
53896593
SCSB-5384496

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Columbia University Libraries