Empire, Colony, Postcolony

Robert J.C. Young, FBA, is Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University. His writing ranges across the fields of cultural and political history, literature, philosophy, photography, psychoanalysis and translation studies, with a particular focus on colonial history and postcolonial theory. His publications include White Mythologies: Writing History and the West (1990), Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Culture, Theory and Race (1995), Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction (Wiley, 2001), Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (2003), and The Idea of English Ethnicity (Wiley, 2008). He is the editor of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.

• Acknowledgments viii1 Introduction 12 Empire 73 Colony 274 Slavery and Race 425 Colonialism and Imperialism 526 Nation 667 Nationalism 778 Anticolonialism 859 Decolonization 10310 Neo]colonialism, Globalization, Planetarity 11711 Postcolony 13512 Postcolonialism 149References 178Name Index 191Subject Index 195