{"product_id":"haunted-by-empire-9780822337249","title":"Haunted by Empire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn innovative collection that brings postcolonial critiques to bear on North American history and draws on that history to question the analytic conventions of postcolonial studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This powerful collection of dazzling essays offers essential reading for our times. It shows us historically how the vast geopolitical movements of empire and globalization rely on intimate recesses of everyday domestic life at home and abroad. It demonstrates the urgency of understanding the long history and geographical reach of the American empire through comparative and transnational perspectives.”—Amy Kaplan, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U. S. Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Haunted by Empire\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly illustrates how power plays out in the management of bodies, sentiments, and desires. Readers interested in how attention to the intimate is reconfiguring both U. S. history and postcolonial studies and illuminating the convergences between the two will treasure this rich and provocative book.”—Jacquelyn Hall, Spruill Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xv\u003cbr\u003e 1. Intimidations of Empire: Predicaments of the Tactile and Unseen \/ Ann Laura Stoler 1\u003cbr\u003e 2. Tense and Tender Ties: The Politics of Comparison in North American History and (Post) Colonial Studies \/ Ann Laura Stoler 23\u003cbr\u003e Convergence and Comparison \u003cbr\u003e 3. Samoa’s Half-Castes and Some Frontiers of Comparison \/ Damon Salesa 71\u003cbr\u003e 4. States of Hygiene: Race “Improvement” and Biomedical Citizenship in Australia and the Colonial Philippines \/ Warwick Anderson 94\u003cbr\u003e 5. Adjudicating Intimacies on U.S. Frontiers \/ Nayan Shah 116\u003cbr\u003e 6. Proper Caresses and Prudent Distance: A How-To Manual from Colonial Louisiana \/ Shannon Lee Dawdy 140\u003cbr\u003e 7. “His Kingdon for a Kiss”: Indians and Intimacy in the Narrative of John Marrant \/ Tiya Miles 163\u003cbr\u003e Proximities of Power \u003cbr\u003e 8. The Intimacies of Four Continents \/ Lisa Lowe 191\u003cbr\u003e 9. Body Work in the Antebellum United States \/ Kathleen Brown 213\u003cbr\u003e 10. Fractions and Fictions in the United States Census of 1890 \/ Martha Hodes 240\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Fair Ensemble: Kate Chopin in St. Louis in 1904 \/ Laura Wexler 271\u003cbr\u003e 12. “The Perfect Mistress of Russian Economy”: Sighting the Intimate on a Colonial Alaskan Terrain, 1784–1821 \/ Gwenn A. Miller 297\u003cbr\u003e Circuits of Knowledge Production \u003cbr\u003e 13. An Empire of Tests: Psychometrics and the Paradoxes of Nationalism in the Americas \/ Alexandra Minna Stern 325\u003cbr\u003e 14. Making “American” Families: Transnational Adoption and U.S. Latin American Policy \/ Laura Briggs 344\u003cbr\u003e 15. The Darkness That Enters the Home: The Politics of Prostitution during the Pilippine-American War \/ Paul A. Kramer 366\u003cbr\u003e 16. Ordering Others: U.S. Financial Advisers in the Early Twentieth Century \/ Emily S. Rosenberg 405\u003cbr\u003e Refractions \u003cbr\u003e 17. Internal Colonialism and Gender \/ Linda Gordon\u003cbr\u003e 427\u003cbr\u003e 18. Commentary \/ Catherine Hall 452\u003cbr\u003e 19. Afterword \/ Nancy F. Cott 469\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 473\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 531\u003cbr\u003e Index 535","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406041030999,"sku":"9780822337249","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822337249.jpg?v=1730494339","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/haunted-by-empire-9780822337249","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}