Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the City

by Jane Jacobs

Book Overview

Edge of Empire examines struggles over urban space in three contemporary first world cities in an attempt to map the real geographies of colonialism and postcolonialism as manifest in modern society. From London, the one-time heart of the empire, to Perth and Brisbane, scenes of Aboriginal claims for the sacred in the space of the modern city, Jacobs emphasises the global geography of the local and unravels the spatialised cultural politics of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415120071
• ISBN13: 9780415120074
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 9.6"