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- The Scandal of Empire - Wikipedia
The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain is a book written by Nicholas Dirks, who was at the time the Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Professor of History at Columbia University, United States
- The Scandal of Empire — Harvard University Press
In this fascinating, and devastating, account of the scandal that laid the foundation of the British Empire, Nicholas Dirks explains how this substitution of imperial authority for Company rule helped erase the dirty origins of empire and justify the British presence in India
- The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial . . .
The Scandal of Empire reveals that the conquests and exploitations of the East India Company were critical to England's development in the eighteenth century and beyond In this powerfully written critique, Nicholas Dirks shows how the empire projected its own scandalous behavior onto India itself
- The scandal of empire : India and the creation of imperial . . .
The scandal of empire : India and the creation of imperial Britain by Dirks, Nicholas B , 1950- Publication date 2006 Topics
- The Scandal of Empire - De Gruyter
The Scandal of Empire reveals that the conquests and exploitations of the East India Company were critical to England's development in the eighteenth century and beyond In this powerfully written critique, Nicholas Dirks shows how the empire projected its own scandalous behavior onto India itself
- The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain
Moreover, through the ‘moral spectacle’ of the impeachment trial, this public addressing of scandal helped to convert Britain’s presence in India to a perception of legitimate sovereignty, producing the conditions for empire’s success and ‘its transformation into a patriotic enterprise’ (p 125)
- The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial . . .
In this fascinating, and devastating, account of the scandal that laid the foundation of the British Empire, Nicholas Dirks explains how this substitution of imperial authority for Company rule helped erase the dirty origins of empire and justify the British presence in India
- Scandal of Empire by Nicholas B. Dirks | Penguin Random House . . .
Intrusive behavior was recast as a civilizing mission In this fascinating, and devastating, account of the scandal that laid the foundation of the British Empire, Nicholas Dirks explains how this… Keep Reading
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