| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2

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Book Review

Methods/Theory

Frederick Cooper. Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 327. $19.95.

Frederick Cooper's historiographical review of colonialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries provides a critical assessment of the principal concepts applied in recent analysis. The author notes that academic analysis of modern colonization took place primarily as colonization ended. His review therefore caps a generation of studies, focusing on the application of concepts of identity, globalization, and modernity. This is important work on the theorization of empires, setting imperial analysis in tension with the very different structure of nation. (The nation is now characterized by ritualistic references to Benedict Anderson, even by Cooper.)

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