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Ruling the savage periphery : frontier governance and the making of the modern state / Benjamin D. Hopkins.

By: Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020Description: 279 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780674980709 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.11 HOP
Contents:
Introduction: The edges of authority -- Frontier governmentality -- Governing British India's unruly frontier -- The imperial life of the Frontier Crimes Regulation -- The colonial specter of "savagery" -- Ruling the Chiricahua Apache in America's Desert Southwest -- Argentina's conquest of the desert and the limits of frontier governmentality -- Conclusion: A long history of violence.
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BOOKs NLS General Stacks 323.11 HOP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) HB Available Recommended by Mr. Mutum Kenedy Singh 39819

Introduction: The edges of authority -- Frontier governmentality -- Governing British India's unruly frontier -- The imperial life of the Frontier Crimes Regulation -- The colonial specter of "savagery" -- Ruling the Chiricahua Apache in America's Desert Southwest -- Argentina's conquest of the desert and the limits of frontier governmentality -- Conclusion: A long history of violence.