While Western literature has long reflected the techniques of power that privileged the colonial masters and their point of view, Russian fictional and nonficti

In 1845 an expedition led by Sir John Franklin vanished in the Canadian Arctic. The enduring obsession with the Franklin mystery, and in particular Inuit inform

Looking at the way cultural competencies and sensibilities entered into the construction of race in the colonial context, this text proposes that 'cultural raci

An innovative exploration of how colonial interventions in Afghanistan have been made possible through representations of the country as 'backward'.

Argues that by meeting the vast administrative challenge of the British Empire - thorough maps and surveys, censuses and statistics - Victorian administrators d