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In the Shadow of Munich: British Policy towards Czechoslovakia from the Endorsement to the Renunciation of the Munich Agreement (1938-1942) (review)

In the Shadow of Munich: British Policy towards Czechoslovakia from the Endorsement to the... Book Reviews of government, of civil service, of the population was averted from the challenges of consent and coercion and focused on the mundane, the day to day, the getting by. In this way the stakes, and the possible outcomes, of practices and policies were often not discerned, by either practitioners or the public. The dynamics of abeyance permitted the persistence of rule, under always fraught and uncertain conditions, in Gaza. (p. 20) Feldman's theoretical aim is to develop the nuances of our understandings of governmentality in colonial conditions. While force and coercion are critical aspects of colonial rule, she joins many scholars who point out that the "tenacity of colonialism" indicates that it could not be sustained through force alone but a dynamic relation between consent or coercion (p. 11). "Government in Gaza persisted within a field in which the familiar catalogue of ruling techniques associated with governmentality--expertise, statistical exactness, administrative certitude, resource concentration--was present, but not dominant" (p. 12). Feldman's book is clearly the product of a careful and skillful researcher. It is exemplary in its empirical grounding in the archives and its informed theoretical interpretation of the data. While its finding that practices of bureaucratic http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of World History University of Hawai'I Press

In the Shadow of Munich: British Policy towards Czechoslovakia from the Endorsement to the Renunciation of the Munich Agreement (1938-1942) (review)

Frommer, Benjamin
Journal of World History , Volume 22 (3) – Sep 4, 2011
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Book Reviews of government, of civil service, of the population was averted from the challenges of consent and coercion and focused on the mundane, the day to day, the getting by. In this way the stakes, and the possible outcomes, of practices and policies were often not discerned, by either practitioners or the public. The dynamics of abeyance permitted the persistence of rule, under always fraught and uncertain conditions, in Gaza. (p. 20) Feldman's theoretical aim is to develop the nuances of our understandings of governmentality in colonial conditions. While force and coercion are critical aspects of colonial rule, she joins many scholars who point out that the "tenacity of colonialism" indicates that it could not be sustained through force alone but a dynamic relation between consent or coercion (p. 11). "Government in Gaza persisted within a field in which the familiar catalogue of ruling techniques associated with governmentality--expertise, statistical exactness, administrative certitude, resource concentration--was present, but not dominant" (p. 12). Feldman's book is clearly the product of a careful and skillful researcher. It is exemplary in its empirical grounding in the archives and its informed theoretical interpretation of the data. While its finding that practices of bureaucratic

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