Empires and Boundaries: Rethinking Race Class and Gender in Colonial Settings is an exciting collection of original essays exploring the meaning and existence of conflicting and coexisting hierarchies in colonial settings. With investigations into the colonial past of a diversity of regions â including South Asia South-East Asia and Africa â the dozen notable international scholars collected here offer a truly inter-disciplinary approach to understanding the structures and workings of power in British French Dutch German and Italian colonial contexts. Integrating a historical approach with perspectives and theoretical tools specific to disciplines such as social anthropology literary and film studies and gender studies Empires and Boundaries: Rethinking Race Class and Gender in Colonial Settings is a striking and ambitious contribution to the scholarship of imperialism and post-colonialism and an essential read for anyone interested in the revolution being undergone in these fields of study. . Language: English