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Waiting for the Barbarians

Waiting for the Barbarians

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Waiting for the Barbarians

by Lapham, Lewis

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London: Verso Books, 1997. Hardback. pp. 230. 8vo. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Light edgewear. Dustjacket very lightly shelfworn; very good+.

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Timothy Brennan is professor of comparative literature, cultural studies, and English at the University of Minnesota. His books include At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now and, most recently, Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of the Left and Right . He writes for a number of journals, including New Left Review and The Nation . Saree Makdisi is a professor of English and comparative literature at UCLA. He lives in Los Angeles, California. Mahmood Mamdani is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government, and a member of the Departments of Anthropology and Political Science and the School of Public and International Affairs at Columbia University. His previous books include Good Muslim, Bad Muslim , Citizen and Subject , and When Victims Become Killers . From Kampala, Uganda, he now divides his time between New York and Kampala. Ilan Pappe is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. His many books include The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and, most recently, Gaza in Crisis (with Noam Chomsky). He writes for, among others, the Guardian and the London Review of Books . Jacqueline Rose is Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London. Her books include Sexuality in the Field of Vision ; The Question of Zion ; and the novel Albertine .

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Title
Waiting for the Barbarians
Author
Lapham, Lewis
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Hardback
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Used
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ISBN 10
1859848826
ISBN 13
9781859848821
Publisher
Verso Books
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1997
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