Antoinette Burton

Archive Stories

Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History
Herausgeber: Burton, Antoinette

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Produktbeschreibung

This anthology compares scholarly findings from around the world to comment on the creation, definition, and use of archival evidence in the writing of history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780822336778
• ISBN-10: 0822336774
• Artikelnr.: 22473129

Autorenporträt

Antoinette Burton is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she is the Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies. She is the author of Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India and At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late-Victorian Britain. She is the editor of After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation and a coeditor of Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History, both also published by Duke University Press. With Jean Allman, she edits The Journal of Women’s History.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Archive Fever, Archive Stories / Antoinette Burton 1
Part I. Close Encounters: The Archive as Contact Zone 25
National Narratives and the Politics of Miscegenation: Britain and India /
Durba Ghosh 27
“Without the Past There is No Future”: Archives, History, and Authority in
Uzbekistan / Jeff Sahadeo 45
Mechanisms of Exclusion: Historicizing the Archive and the Passport / Craig
Roberston 68
Mr. Peal’s Archive: Mobility and Exchange in Histories of Empire / Tony
Ballantyne 87
A Living Archive of Desire: Teresita la Campesina and the Embodient of
Queer Latino Community Histories / Horacio N. Roque Ramirez 111
Toiling in the Archives of Cyberspace / Renee M. Sentilles 136
Part II. States of Art: “Official” Archives and Counter-Histories 157
“What Is an Archive?” in the History of Modern France / Jennifer S.
Milligan 159
The Archive and the Case of the German Nation / Peter Fritzsche 184
On the Biography of the Bakunin Family Archive / John Randolph 209
Creating the “Suffragette Spirit”: British Feminism and the Historical
Imagination / Laura Mayhall 232
Archives of the Unbuilt Environment: Documents and Discourses of Imagined
Space in Twentieth-Century Kohler, Wisconsin / Kathryn J. Oberdeck 251
Fiction’s Imaginative Archive and the Newspaper’s Local Scandals: The Case
of Nineteenth-Century Egypt / Marilyn Booth 274
Part III. Archive Matters: The Past in the Present 297
In Good Hands: Researching the 1976 Soweto Uprising in the State Archives
of South Africa / Helena Pohlandt-McCormick 299
The Colonial Archive on Trial: Possession, Dispossession, and History in
Delgamuukw v. British Columbia / Adele Perry 325
The History of Killing and the Killing of History / Ann Curthoys 351
Selected Bibliography 375
Contributors 381
Index 385