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"To understand the 'ruins of empire' and where they come from requires an emphasis on the multiple, pluripotent forms of dissent and disruption that bedeviled imperial state power imperial state power wherever it sought to compel authority and create legitimacy, by force of arms or, indeed, by force of the tax man, whether British or native."
— Mar 26, 2018 06:23PM
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Eric
is on page 164 of 336
"Students of imperial history need to begin with a skepticism about empire's infallibility rather than with a conviction about its reach; we must see when and where challenges to it cluster; and we must be alive these everyday moments when colonizers came so close to outright resistance that they could see the whites of their subjects' eyes." (144)
— Mar 22, 2018 07:39PM
Eric
is on page 87 of 336
"...rethinking British imperial history...t as a perpetually, precariously vulnerable enterprise in which those seeking to secure imperial sovereignty met with obstacles and impediments that served as trip wires for a larger, ongoing set of troubles once heat and smok of battle had disappeared." (86)
— Mar 13, 2018 07:14AM
