Colonialism's Culture: Anthropology, Travel, and GovernmentIn a wide ranging account of the development of ideas about human difference, Nicholas Thomas challenges reigning theories that portray colonialism as monolithic in character, purpose, and efficacy throughout the world. Taking issue with such writers as Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, and Gayatri Spivak, Thomas describes colonialism not so much as a discourse but a project a project in which the interactions among colonizing and colonized people are far