In this controversial and bracing study, Robert Young argues that today's theories on post-colonialism and ethnicity are disturbingly close to the colonial discourse of the nineteenth century. An original and exciting work.
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...[This] is a book that everyone interested in the interconnected history of the modern concepts of race, culture, sexuality, and empire should read..
–American Historical Review
Colonial Desire is an indespensable study, a work that reflects the needs of our current situation. Colonial Desire will begin much needed debates about the terminology of postcolonialism, as well as the so-far unstudied issue of colonial desire.
–Journal of Caribbean Studies
...Colonial Desire is a valuable resource for gender studies.
–Shalini Purl, Signs
...an important work.
–Canadian Historical Review
–American Historical Review
Colonial Desire is an indespensable study, a work that reflects the needs of our current situation. Colonial Desire will begin much needed debates about the terminology of postcolonialism, as well as the so-far unstudied issue of colonial desire.
–Journal of Caribbean Studies
...Colonial Desire is a valuable resource for gender studies.
–Shalini Purl, Signs
...an important work.
–Canadian Historical Review
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Robert Young is a Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in English at Oxford University.
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Walk through the majestic iron gates with which Greenwich Park faces the river Thames, and make your way up the steep grassy hill which overlooks the Isle of Dogs, and the level, desolate flats of East London. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, Anthropological Society, Matthew Arnold, West Indies, American Civil War, Robert Knox, New York, Anthropological Review, Black Athena, Gobineau's Essay, Henry Hotze, James Hunt, Thomas Arnold, American South, Edward Long, Governor Eyre, Northern Ireland, South America, The Index, The Races of Britain, Count Gobineau, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Herbert Spencer, Jamaica Insurrection, John Beddoe New!
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