Empire in Question

Informationen zum Autor Antoinette Burton Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Essays written by Antoinette Burton since the mid-1990s trace her thinking about modern British history and engage debates about how to think about British imperialism in light of contemporary events. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...

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Antoinette Burton

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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.

Zusammenfassung
Essays written by Antoinette Burton since the mid-1990s trace her thinking about modern British history and engage debates about how to think about British imperialism in light of contemporary events.

Inhalt

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