| #294942 in Books | 1991-10-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.62 x6.00l,.74 | File type: PDF | 240 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| clunky, citational, overwrought|By English PhD|Found Mitchell's constant citations a bit distracting and his application of Foucault and Heiddeger a bit clunky. Some of the connections are there and importantly made, but others are a tad overwrought, increasing the clunkiness of the text overall. I would say that this book is worth reading, but only if you have already read Hei||""Colonising Egypt focuses on the intellectual and political impact of Europe on 19th century Egypt and argues for a critical repositioning of the study of colonial history. Drawing on the methodologies of contemporary European intellectuals such as Michel Fou
Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt.
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