Empires and Boundaries

<p><em>Empires and Boundaries: Rethinking Race Class and Gender in Colonial Settings</em> is an exciting collection of original essays exploring the meaning and existence of conflicting and coexisting hierarchies in colonial settings. With investigations into the colonial past of a diversity of regions – including South Asia South-East Asia and Africa – the dozen notable international scholars collected here offer a truly inter-disciplinary approach to understanding the structures and workings of power in British French Dutch German and Italian colonial contexts. </p><p>Integrating a historical approach with perspectives and theoretical tools specific to disciplines such as social anthropology literary and film studies and gender studies <em>Empires and Boundaries: Rethinking Race Class and Gender in Colonial Settings</em><strong> </strong>is a striking and ambitious contribution to the scholarship of imperialism and post-colonialism and an essential read for anyone interested in the revolution being undergone in these fields of study.</p>