Not too long ago, literary theorists were writing about the death of the novel and the death of the author; today many are talking about the death of Theory. Th

"... the essays in [this volume] question the inflated claims, facile slogans, and political pretensions that have in our time turned theory into a ubiquitous o

As the Theory Era draws to a close, we need more than ever intelligent rumination and debate over what it all meant. THEORY'S EMPIRE was an important step in th

Theories of Empire, 1450-1800 draws upon published and unpublished work by leading scholars in the history of European expansion and the history of political th

Examines how “Indianness” has propagated U.S. conceptions of empire