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Empire in question : reading, writing, and teaching British imperialism
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Empire in question : reading, writing, and teaching British imperialism / Antoinette Burton ; with a foreword by Mrinalini Sinha and an afterword by C. A. Bayly.
ISBN
9780822348801 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822349020 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Durham : Duke University Press, 2011.
Physical Description
xxi, 392 p. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 18, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Rules of thumb : British history and 'imperial culture' in nineteenth-century and twentieth-century Britain
Who needs the nation? : interrogating "British" history
Thinking beyond the boundaries : empire, feminism, and the domains of history
Deja vu all over again
When was Britain? nostalgia for the nation at the end of the "American century"
Archive stories : gender in the making of imperial and colonial histories
Gender, colonialism, and feminist collaboration (with Jean Allman)
Fearful bodies into disciplined subjects: pleasure, romance, and the family drama of colonial reform in Mary Carpenter's Six months in India
Contesting the zenana: the mission to make "lady doctors for India", 1874-85.
Recapturing Jane Eyre : reflections on historicizing the colonial encounter in Victorian Britain
From child bride to "Hindoo lady" : Rukhmabai and the debate on sexual respectability in imperial Britain
Tongues untied : Lord Salisbury's "black man" and the boundaries of imperial democracy
India Inc. : nostalgia, memory, and the empire of things
New narratives of imperial politics in the nineteenth century
Coda. empire of/and the world? : the limits of British imperialism
Getting outside of the global : repositioning British imperialism in world history.
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