Haunted by Empire (eBook, PDF)

Geographies of Intimacy in North American History
Redaktion: Ann Laura Stoler, Stoler

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Produktbeschreibung

A milestone in U.S. historiography, Haunted by Empire brings postcolonial critiques to bear on North American history and draws on that history to question the analytic conventions of postcolonial studies. The contributors to this innovative collection examine the critical role of "e;domains of the intimate"e; in the consolidation of colonial power. They demonstrate how the categories of difference underlying colonialism-the distinctions advanced as the justification for the colonizer's rule of the colonized-were enacted and reinforced in intimate realms from the bedroom to the classroom to the medical examining room. Together the essays focus attention on the politics of comparison-on how colonizers differentiated one group or set of behaviors from another-and on the circulation of knowledge and ideologies within and between imperial projects. Ultimately, this collection forces a rethinking of what historians choose to compare and of the epistemological grounds on which those choices are based.Haunted by Empire includes Ann Laura Stoler's seminal essay "e;Tense and Tender Ties"e; as well as her bold introduction, which carves out the exciting new analytic and methodological ground animated by this comparative venture. The contributors engage in a lively cross-disciplinary conversation, drawing on history, anthropology, literature, philosophy, and public health. They address such topics as the regulation of Hindu marriages and gay sexuality in the early-twentieth-century United States; the framing of multiple-choice intelligence tests; the deeply entangled histories of Asian, African, and native peoples in the Americas; the racial categorizations used in the 1890 U.S. census; and the politics of race and space in French colonial New Orleans. Linda Gordon, Catherine Hall, and Nancy F. Cott each provide a concluding essay reflecting on the innovations and implications of the arguments advanced in Haunted by Empire.Contributors. Warwick Anderson, Laura Briggs, Kathleen Brown, Nancy F. Cott, Shannon Lee Dawdy, Linda Gordon, Catherine Hall, Martha Hodes, Paul A. Kramer, Lisa Lowe, Tiya Miles, Gwenn A. Miller, Emily S. Rosenberg, Damon Salesa, Nayan Shah, Alexandra Minna Stern, Ann Laura Stoler, Laura Wexler

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822387992
• Artikelnr.: 54818452

Autorenporträt

Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies and Chair of the Anthropology Department at The New School for Social Research. She is the author of Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule and Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things (also published by Duke University Press), and a coeditor of Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xv
1. Intimidations of Empire: Predicaments of the Tactile and Unseen / Ann
Laura Stoler 1
2. Tense and Tender Ties: The Politics of Comparison in North American
History and (Post) Colonial Studies / Ann Laura Stoler 23
Convergence and Comparison
3. Samoa’s Half-Castes and Some Frontiers of Comparison / Damon Salesa 71
4. States of Hygiene: Race “Improvement” and Biomedical Citizenship in
Australia and the Colonial Philippines / Warwick Anderson 94
5. Adjudicating Intimacies on U.S. Frontiers / Nayan Shah 116
6. Proper Caresses and Prudent Distance: A How-To Manual from Colonial
Louisiana / Shannon Lee Dawdy 140
7. “His Kingdon for a Kiss”: Indians and Intimacy in the Narrative of John
Marrant / Tiya Miles 163
Proximities of Power
8. The Intimacies of Four Continents / Lisa Lowe 191
9. Body Work in the Antebellum United States / Kathleen Brown 213
10. Fractions and Fictions in the United States Census of 1890 / Martha
Hodes 240
11. The Fair Ensemble: Kate Chopin in St. Louis in 1904 / Laura Wexler 271
12. “The Perfect Mistress of Russian Economy”: Sighting the Intimate on a
Colonial Alaskan Terrain, 1784–1821 / Gwenn A. Miller 297
Circuits of Knowledge Production
13. An Empire of Tests: Psychometrics and the Paradoxes of Nationalism in
the Americas / Alexandra Minna Stern 325
14. Making “American” Families: Transnational Adoption and U.S. Latin
American Policy / Laura Briggs 344
15. The Darkness That Enters the Home: The Politics of Prostitution during
the Pilippine-American War / Paul A. Kramer 366
16. Ordering Others: U.S. Financial Advisers in the Early Twentieth Century
/ Emily S. Rosenberg 405
Refractions
17. Internal Colonialism and Gender / Linda Gordon
> 18. Commentary / Catherine Hall 452
19. Afterword / Nancy F. Cott 469
Bibliography 473
Contributors 531
Index 535