Nasser Mufti's Civilizing War offers comparative readings of literature, criticism, historiography, and social analysis from Britain's Anglophone empire. In insightful analyses of writings as diverse as those by Carlyle, Engels, Disraeli, Doyle, Kipling, Conrad, Naipaul, Gordimer, and Ondaatje, Mufti shows how narratives of civil war are integral to the politics of empire.
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Nasser Mufti's Civilizing War offers comparative readings of literature, criticism, historiography, and social analysis from Britain's Anglophone empire. In insightful analyses of writings as diverse as those by Carlyle, Engels, Disraeli, Doyle, Kipling, Conrad, Naipaul, Gordimer, and Ondaatje, Mufti shows how narratives of civil war are integral to the politics of empire.
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