Antoinette Burton

Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism

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Produktbeschreibung

Traces the development of a particular, contentious strand of modern British history, the "new imperial history," through the eyes of Antoinette Burton, who helped to shape the field

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Antoinette Burton is Professor of History and Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has written and edited many books, including The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau and After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation, both also published by Duke University Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780822349020
• ISBN-10: 0822349027
• Artikelnr.: 32470421

Autorenporträt

Antoinette Burton

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword / Mrinalini Sinha xi
Preface. A Note on the Logic of the Volume xvii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction. Imperial Optics: Empire Histories, Interpretive Methods 1
Part I. Home and Away: Mapping Imperial Cultures
1. Rules of Thumb: British History and "Imperial Culture" in
Nineteenth-Century and Twentieth-Century Britain (1994) 27
2. Who Needs the Nation? Interrogating "British" History (1997) 41
3. Thinking beyond the Boundaries: Empire, Feminism, and the Domains of
History (2001) 56
4. Déjà Vu All over Again (2002) 68
5. When Was Britain? Nostalgia for the Nation at the End of the "American
Century" (2003) 77
6. Archive Stories: Gender in the Making of Imperial and Colonial Histories
(2004) 94
7. Gender, Colonialism, and Feminist Collaboration (2008, with Jean Allman)
106
Part II. Theory into Practice: Doing Critical Imperial History
8. Fearful Bodies into Disciplined Subjects: Pleasure, Romance, and the
Family Drama of Colonial Reform in Mary Carpenter's Six Months in India
(1995) 123
9. Contesting the Zenana: The Mission to Make "Lady Doctors for India,"
1874-75 (1996) 151
10. Recapturing Jane Eyre: Reflections on Historicizing the Colonial
Encounter in Victorian Britain (1996) 174
11. From Child Bride to "Hindoo Lady": Rukhmabai and the Debate on Sexual
Respectability of Imperial Britain (1998) 184
12. Tongues United: Lord Salisbury's "Black Man" and the Boundaries of
Imperial Democracy (2000) 214
13. India Inc.?: Nostalgia, Memory, and the Empire of Things (2001) 241
14. New Narratives of Imperial Politics in the Nineteenth Century (2006)
257
Coda. Empire of/and the World?: The Limits of British Imperialism
15. Getting Outside of the Global: Repositioning British Imperialism in
World History 275
Afterword / C. A. Bayly 293
Notes 303
Index 381