Antoinette Burton is Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies and Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, she is the author of numerous works on the British empire, women and feminism, and world history, including At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late-Victorian Britain and Empire in Question: Reading, Writing and Teaching British Imperialism.
* Acknowledgments
* Introduction: The Troubled Ground of Empire
* Chapter 1: Subject to Setback: Pax Britannica and the Question of
Military Victory
* Chapter 2: Subject to Interruption: Economic Protest and the Limits
of Imperial Order
* Chapter 3: Subject to Insurgency: Enemies of Empire and the Challenge
to Governability
* Epilogue: Toward a Minority History of British Imperialism
* Notes
* Select Bibliography
* Index
