The black hole of empire [ history of a global practice of power
When Siraj, the ruler of Bengal, overran the British settlement of Calcutta in 1756, he allegedly jailed 146 European prisoners overnight in a cramped prison. Of the group, 123 died of suffocation. This title follows the ever-changing representations of this historical event and founding myth of the...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press ,
c2012
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| Online Access: | http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/iviewer/PUPB0001557/userkey/pc/1/0/read.html |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Outrage in Calcutta
- 2. A secret veil
- 3. Tipu's tiger
- 4. Liberty of the subject
- 5. Equality of subjects
- 6. For the happiness of mankind
- 7. The pedagogy of violence
- 8. The pedagogy of culture
- 9. Bombs, sovereignty, and football
- 10. The death and everlasting life of empire