Ruling the Savage Periphery: Frontier Governance and the Making of the Modern State
- ISBN-10
- 0674980700
- ISBN-13
- 9780674980709
- Category
- Borderlands
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020
- Author
- Benjamin D. Hopkins
Description
Benjamin Hopkins develops a new theory of colonial administration: frontier governmentality. This system placed indigenous peoples at the borders of imperial territory, where they could be both exploited and kept away. Today's "failed states" are a result. Condemned to the periphery of the global order, they function as colonial design intended.
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- 2020-05-05
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- Harvard University Press
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