Imperial secrets : remapping the mind of empire / Patrick A. Kelley.
Imprint
Washington, DC : Center for Strategic Intelligence Research, National Defense Intelligence College : For sale by the Supt. of Docs, U.S. G.P.O., [2008]
xvi, 231 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Note
"October 2008."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
[Pt. 1]. Introduction -- An empire of information -- [Pt. 2]. Law, map and text: how empires know -- Thuggee: making the invisible visible -- Sai bil' fesad: fomenting evil in the world -- Rome: concealing and revealing -- Barzakh: the intermediate world -- Rhizomes: unity and multiplicity -- Nomads and states: tent of Osman/House of Osman -- Chrono-politics: the accelerating archive -- Apocalypse: the Sepoy Revolt of 1857 -- [Pt. 3]. Dress, discourse and imagination: How empires learn to know differently -- Masquerade: agents and actors -- Josephus: the "Hellenizing" Glass -- Derive and drift: Evliya Celebi, an Ottoman situationist -- Boukoloi: historicizing fiction/fictionalizing history -- Ekphrasis: showing or telling? -- Boudica: a terrible disaster -- Lessons learned (or rather ... observed).
