... by the supposedly empty lin- guistic formalism of high theory, entrenches a precritical vision of the real as the pragmatic, the everyday, or the empirical, one which echoes "with a suspiciously idealist logic" (98). The "return to history" has often been perceived as a return to politics...

...Timothy S. Murphy Empire by Hardt Michael and Negri Antonio Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2000 , 512 pp.; $35.00 cloth © COPYRIGHT 2001 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2001 Srinivas Aravamudan. Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804. Durham...

.... Though they expand the British Empire's, rather than simply their own, sphere of influence, they belie Haggard's imaginative mastery, for in domesticating the empire these heroines transcend domestication, commanding authority far beyond the garden gate. Through an analysis of The Ghost Kings (1908...

...” marshals Cumbrian dialect, tradition, architecture, temporality, and history to question both the exploitation of the Lake District's natural resources and the British Empire's developmental narratives relating to industrialization, urbanization, commercialization, and militarization. While emphasizing...

... theoretical accounts and empirical studies, often using digital tools—can show how generic dynamism demands methods of reading that collaborate along different explanatory axes. Slow Fire: Serial Thinking and Hardy’s Genres of Induction daniel williams Early in Thomas Hardy’s first novel...

... and militant organization or action, Buenaventura Durruti and the Spanish anarchists, contemporary forms of alienation and exploitation, the differences between writing Empire and writing drama, typologies of militancy, Brecht's The Measures Taken ( also known as The Decision, Die Massnahme ), and Müller's...

...Katharine Slater Little House on the Prairie participates in a nationalist project by reframing the pioneer local as coveted and critical to the construction of US empire. Writing in the tradition of Great Plains regional literature, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane ground this novel's...

...Timothy S. Murphy Over the past decade Antonio Negri has become widely influential as a theorist of globalization. His concepts of empire and multitude, elaborated in collaboration with Michael Hardt, derive from the analysis of the impact that linguistic performance and communications networks...

..., the cities—endanger their empire and territories through their infighting. Yet their “selfish” and “power hungry” politics is derived from their conditions of exis- tence. Were they not to commit to this kind of politics, their lordship would fail, as they had no other means but self-protection by which...

...-congratulatory modernity. Aravamudan encourages us to think about the uncertain regions at the edges of colonial appropriation. Beyond the borders of Lady Mary's Ottoman Empire lie those realms—Persia, India, Japan, and China—that throughout much of the eighteenth century stood well outside European...

...' views of the "rise" of a self-congratulatory modernity. Aravamudan encourages us to think about the uncertain regions at the edges of colonial appropriation. Beyond the borders of Lady Mary's Ottoman Empire lie those realms—Persia, India, Japan, and China—that throughout much of the eighteenth...

... us to think about the uncertain regions at the edges of colonial appropriation. Beyond the borders of Lady Mary's Ottoman Empire lie those realms—Persia, India, Japan, and China—that throughout much of the eighteenth century stood well outside European schemes of colonial aggrandizement...

... us to think about the uncertain regions at the edges of colonial appropriation. Beyond the borders of Lady Mary's Ottoman Empire lie those realms—Persia, India, Japan, and China—that throughout much of the eighteenth century stood well outside European schemes of colonial aggrandizement...

.... Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s new book concludes a trilogy begun with Empire (Harvard UP, 2000) and continued in Multitude: War and Democ- racy in the Age of Empire (Penguin, 2004). Readers new to Hardt and Negri’s work will have no trouble approaching Commonwealth, however, since...

... England: Working-Class Children at the Heart of Victorian Empire . New York : Routledge , 2005 . Brydall John . Camera Regis; or, A Short View of London [. . .] Methodized for the Benefit of the Present Inhabitants . London : William Cooke , 1676 . Buck-Morss Susan . `` Semiotic...

... . Empire . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . ———. 2004 . Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire . New York : Penguin . ———. 2009 . Commonwealth . Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press . ———. 2011 . “Arabs Are Democracy's New Pioneers.” Guardian...

... empire in human history; in the wake of the Second World War, the nation was virtually bankrupt, its infrastructure shat- tered by years of German bombardment, and its populace subject to strict rationing of the most basic items of daily life. This exacting domestic hardship, which persisted even...

... Joseba . `` Postnationalism, Fundamentalism, and the Global Real: Historicizing Terror/ism and the new North American/Global Ideology .'' Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 3.1 ( 2002 ): 57 - 86 . Hardt Michael Negri Antonio . Empire . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 2000 . Klady...

... 2005). Lakshmi Subramanian’s Indigenous Capital and Imperial Expansion (1996) stands as a seminal work but is focused on Indian merchants and the colonial transition, not British trade directly, while Pamela Nightingale’s Trade and Empire in Western India, 1784 – 1806 (1970...

... Stanford , 1876 . Carpentier Alejo . Los pasos perdidos [The Lost Steps] . Montevideo : Arca , 1966 . Childs Peter . Modernism and the Post-colonial: Literature and Empire 1885-1930 . London : Continuum , 2007 . Collingwood Harry [William Joseph Cosens Lancaster...