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.
Colonising Egypt With a new preface
About the Book
Table of Contents
List of illustrations page
Preface to the paperback edition
Acknowledgements
1 Egypt at the exhibition
2 Enframing
3 An appearance of order
4 After we have captured their bodies
5 The machinery of truth
6 The philosophy of the thing
Notes
Select bibliography
Index
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