States of violence /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Coronil, Fernando, 1944-2011, Skurski, Julie, 1945-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2006]
Series:Comparative studies in society and history book series.
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Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: States of violence and the violence of states / Julie Skurski and Fernando Coronil
  • Civilization and barbarism : cattle frontiers in Latin America / Silvio R. Duncan Baretta and John Markoff
  • Dismembering and remembering the nation : the semantics of political violence in Venezuela / Fernando Coronil and Julie Skurski
  • Mad mullahs and Englishmen : discourse in the colonial encounter / David B. Edwards
  • Tea talk : violent measures in the discursive practices of Sri Lanka's estate tamils / E. Valentine Daniel
  • "Better occasional murders than frequent adulteries" : discourses on banditry, violence, and sacrifice in the Mediterranean / Paul Sant Cassia
  • Of crowds and empires : Afro-Asian riots and European expansion, 1857-1882 / Juan R.I. Cole
  • Ethnic violence on the South African gold mines / T. Dunbar Moodie
  • Violence in the big house : the limits of discipline and the spaces of resistance / Charles Bright
  • Sexual violence, discursive formations, and the state / Veena Das
  • Violence and vision : the prosthetics and aesthetics of terror / Allen Feldman.