Reading across archives, canons, and continents, lowe connects the liberal narrative of freedom overcoming slavery to the expansion of angloamerican empire. The intimacies of four continents is an unprecedented work of literary, social, and political inquiry. Duke university press, jun 8, 2015 history 327 pages. The military conflict between china and vietnam, 19791991 by xiaoming zhang. These relationships of appropriation and dispossession are integral to liberal thought and no matter how much it seeks to present itself as transcending these contexts, liberal thought is continually fractured by them. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. The intimacies of four continents 5 subsumes the uncertainties of liberal and imperial governance. Read the intimacies of four continents online, read in mobile or kindle. Lisa lowe to present lecture on the intimacies of four. The intimacies of four continents by lisa lowe canadian. These relationships of appropriation and dispossession are integral to liberal thought and, no matter how much it seeks to present itself as transcending these contexts, liberal thought is continually fractured by them.
The crucial insight that archives, far from being stable, transparent, collections of facts, often lend an architecture to the information they provide grounds lowes work 4. In her book, lowe examines the consolidation of modern liberal thoughta broad term describing citizenship, freedom, legal personhood, markets, private property and other such familiar political arrangements, concepts, and promisesin relation to the late eighteenth. Chapter 1 the intimacies of four continents my study investigates the often obscured connections between the emer gence of european liberalism. Lisa lowes book indicts the tyranny of world history, whose categories and frameworks have not permitted understanding of the connections among various peoples, differentially affected by empire 174. The intimacies of four continents university of warwick. In the intimacies of four continents she aligns herself with postcolonial scholars like ann laura stoler, antoinette burton, or nayan shah who have each provided a distinctive take on how the intimate sphere of sexual, reproductive, or household relations served as a site of empire. In a sense, one aim of my project is to be more specific about what i would term the economy of affirmation and forgetting that structures and formalizes the archives of liberalism, and liberal ways of understanding. The intimacies of four continents autobiography out of empire a fetishism of colonial commodities the ruses of liberty freedoms yet to come. Download the intimacies of four continents ebook free in pdf and epub format. Get free pdf the intimacies of four continents kwinwaui.
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