The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Mimi Thi NguyenSeries:Next Wave: New Directions in Women's StudiesPublish date:2012-10-01Pages:296
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9780822352396ISBN-10:822352397UPC:9780822352396Book Category:Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Imperialism, Ethnic Studies, Emigration & ImmigrationBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCJ21YY5CV
In The Gift of Freedom, Mimi Thi Nguyen develops a new understanding of contemporary United States empire and its self-interested claims to provide for others the advantage of human freedom. Bringing together critiques of liberalism with postcolonial approaches to the modern cartography of progress, Nguyen proposes "the gift of freedom" as the name for those forces that avow to reverence...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9780822352396ISBN-10:822352397UPC:9780822352396Book Category:Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Imperialism, Ethnic Studies, Emigration & ImmigrationBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCJ21YY5CV
Mimi Thi Nguyen is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is a coeditor of Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America, also published by Duke University Press.
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