Imperial secrets
Subtitle: remapping the mind of empire
By: Patrick A. Kelley.
Contributors: Center for Strategic Intelligence Research (U.S.)
Publisher: Center for Strategic Intelligence Research, National Defense Intelligence College; For sale by the Supt. of Docs, U.S. G.P.O.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781932946208; 9780160817311
Subjects: Imperialism; Intelligence service; Military intelligence
Other titles: Remapping the mind of empire
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-223).
Table of contents: title: [Pt. 1]. Introduction; title: An empire of information; title: [Pt. 2]. Law, map and text: how empires know; title: Thuggee: making the invisible visible; title: Sai bil' fesad: fomenting evil in the world; title: Rome: concealing and revealing; title: Barzakh: the intermediate world; title: Rhizomes: unity and multiplicity; title: Nomads and states: tent of Osman/House of Osman; title: Chrono-politics: the accelerating archive; title: Apocalypse: the Sepoy Revolt of 1857; title: [Pt. 3]. Dress, discourse and imagination: How empires learn to know differently; title: Masquerade: agents and actors; title: Josephus: the "Hellenizing" Glass; title: Derive and drift: Evliya Celebi, an Ottoman situationist; title: Boukoloi: historicizing fiction/fictionalizing history; title: Ekphrasis: showing or telling?; title: Boudica: a terrible disaster; title: Lessons learned (or rather ... observed).