The Colonial Present
Subtitle: Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: June 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781577180890
Subjects: Colonization & independence; Human Geography; War on Terrorism, 2001-; Relations; Imperialism; Social Science; Science; United States; Sociology; Earth Sciences - Geography; ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT; GREAT BRITAIN_FOREIGN RELATIONS_MIDDLE EAST; MIDDLE EAST_RELATIONS_GREAT BRITAIN; MIDDLE EAST_RELATIONS_UNITED STATES; POSTCOLONIALISM; Political Science / International Relations; UNITED STATES_RELATIONS_MIDDLE EAST; Great Britain; Iraq War, 2003; Middle East
First sentence: THE French philosopher Michel Foucault once explained that his interest in what he called "the order of things" had its origins in a passage from an essay by the Argentinian novelist Jorge Luis Borges.