Harald Fischer-Tiné / Susanne Gehrmann (eds.)

Empires and Boundaries

Rethinking Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settings
Herausgeber: Fischer-Tiné, Harald; Gehrmann, Susanne

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Produktbeschreibung

Empires and Boundaries: Rethinking Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settings is an exciting collection of original essays explaining the meaning and existence of conflicting and coexisting hierarchies in colonial settings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 159mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 475g
• ISBN-13: 9780415962391
• ISBN-10: 0415962390
• Artikelnr.: 23800181

Autorenporträt

Harald Fischer-Tiné is Professor of History at Jacobs University, Bremen. He holds a PhD in South Asian History from Heidelberg University (2000) and has published extensively on the social and cultural history of the British Raj and varieties of Hindu reform and Hindu nationalism in 19th and 20th century India. He is the author of Low & Licentious Europeans: White Subalternity in Colonial India (2008) and has co-edited Colonialism as Civilizing Mission (2004)

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction: Empires, Boundaries and
the Production of Difference. Harald Fischer-Tiné and Susanne Gerhmann. 2.
"Education for Work" in Colony and Metropole: The Case of Imperial Germany,
c. 1880-1914. Sebastian Conrad. 3. Hierarchies of Punishment in Colonial
India: European Convicts and the Racial Dividend (c. 1860-1890). Harald
Fischer-Tiné. 4. Boundaries of Race: Representations of Indisch in Colonial
Indonesia Revisited. Vincent J.H. Houben. 5. Contested Boundaries of
Whiteness: Public Service Recruitment and the Eurasian and Anglo-Indian
Association, 1876-1901. Satoshi Mizutani. 6. Citizenship and the Politics
of Difference in French Africa, 1946-60. Frederick Cooper. 7. Gendering the
Colonial Enterprise: La Mère-Patrie and Maternalism in France and French
Indochina. Nicola J. Cooper. 8. A Hybrid Gaze from Delacroix to Djebar:
Visual Encounters and the Construction of the Female "Other" in the
Colonial Discourse of Maghreb. Claudia Gronemann. 9. In the Empire's Eyes:
Africa in Italian Colonial Cinema between Imperial Fantasies and Blind
Spots. Immacolata Amodeo. 10. Rationalizing the World: British Detective
Stories and the Orient. Margrit Pernau. 11. African Americans in West and
Central Africa in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries - Agents of
European Colonial Rule? Katja Füllberg-Stolberg. 12. The Boundaries of
Blackness: African American Culture and the Making of a Black Public Sphere
in Colonial South Africa. Zine Magubane. Index.