{"product_id":"archive-stories-9780822336884","title":"Archive Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis anthology compares scholarly findings from around the world to comment on the creation, definition, and use of archival evidence in the writing of history\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eArchive Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is path-breaking in its subject matter, methodology, and up-to-date reflection on the status of historical knowledge. It is hard to see how anyone can avoid using this important anthology in methodology and historiography courses.”—Bonnie G. Smith, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Important and timely, this fascinating collection of tales from a multitude of repositories and record offices removes all sorts of archives from the historian’s grasp (though there are many extraordinary and brave historians writing here) and restores their meaning to politics and society, to the telling of individual and collective pasts.”—Carolyn Steedman, author of \u003ci\u003eDust: The Archive and Cultural History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Archive Fever, Archive Stories \/ Antoinette Burton 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Close Encounters: The Archive as Contact Zone 25\u003cbr\u003e National Narratives and the Politics of Miscegenation: Britain and India \/ Durba Ghosh 27\u003cbr\u003e “Without the Past There is No Future”: Archives, History, and Authority in Uzbekistan \/ Jeff Sahadeo 45\u003cbr\u003e Mechanisms of Exclusion: Historicizing the Archive and the Passport \/ Craig Roberston 68\u003cbr\u003e Mr. Peal’s Archive: Mobility and Exchange in Histories of Empire \/ Tony Ballantyne 87\u003cbr\u003e A Living Archive of Desire: Teresita la Campesina and the Embodient of Queer Latino Community Histories \/ Horacio N. Roque Ramirez 111\u003cbr\u003e Toiling in the Archives of Cyberspace \/ Renee M. Sentilles 136\u003cbr\u003e Part II. States of Art: “Official” Archives and Counter-Histories 157\u003cbr\u003e “What Is an Archive?” in the History of Modern France \/ Jennifer S. Milligan 159\u003cbr\u003e The Archive and the Case of the German Nation \/ Peter Fritzsche 184\u003cbr\u003e On the Biography of the Bakunin Family Archive \/ John Randolph 209\u003cbr\u003e Creating the “Suffragette Spirit”: British Feminism and the Historical Imagination \/ Laura Mayhall 232\u003cbr\u003e Archives of the Unbuilt Environment: Documents and Discourses of Imagined Space in Twentieth-Century Kohler, Wisconsin \/ Kathryn J. Oberdeck 251\u003cbr\u003e Fiction’s Imaginative Archive and the Newspaper’s Local Scandals: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Egypt \/ Marilyn Booth 274\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Archive Matters: The Past in the Present 297\u003cbr\u003e In Good Hands: Researching the 1976 Soweto Uprising in the State Archives of South Africa \/ Helena Pohlandt-McCormick 299\u003cbr\u003e The Colonial Archive on Trial: Possession, Dispossession, and History in \u003ci\u003eDelgamuukw v. British Columbia \/ \u003c\/i\u003eAdele Perry 325\u003cbr\u003e The History of Killing and the Killing of History \/ Ann Curthoys 351\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography 375\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 381\u003cbr\u003e Index 385\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406040473943,"sku":"9780822336884","price":40.83,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822336884.jpg?v=1730494337","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/archive-stories-9780822336884","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}