... disavowing empire cold war postcolonial nostalgia post–cold war disavowed intimacy selective blindness empire by other means ...

... War in a region where empire persists by other means and in ever-new forms. disavowing empire cold war postcolonial nostalgia post–cold war disavowed intimacy selective blindness empire by other means ...

... proximate neighbors is used as a case study to propose the need for a more nuanced perspective on comparative empires and the problem of colonial modernity. This chapter proposes to consider what it calls the “shared but disavowed” history of colonial modernity as the experience of modernity under colonial...