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Book SynopsisInvestigating how intimacy is constructed across the restless world of empire
Trade Review"Compelling."--
The Journal of American History"A valuable collection that contains much fascinating material and many valuable conceptual insights."--
Victorian Studies“
Moving Subjects makes a significant contribution to some lively areas of historical scholarship, conceptualizing them in new ways: the history of the body, the history of sexuality, the ‘new imperial’ history, the history of settler societies, and the intersections of race, gender, and class in all of these."--Ann Curthoys, coeditor of
Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective“These essays are among the very best out there. Taking on larger understandings of empire and colonialism, the authors offer important and unique insights into how one might interrogate old subjects in new ways and, more important, how we might reconstitute those old subjects to better understand the workings of the past.”--Damon Salesa, associate professor of history, University of Michigan
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Note on Orthography xi
Introduction: The Politics of Intimacy in an Age of Empire 1 TONY BALLANTYNE AND ANTOINETTE BURTON
Part 1. Vantage Points: Moving Across Imperial Spaces
1. Violence and the Intimacy of Imperial Ethnography: The Endeavor
in the Pacific 31 RACHEL STANDFIELD
2. In Search of the "Whaheen": Ngai Tahu Women, Shore Whalers, and the Meaning of Sex in Early New Zealand 49 DAVID HAINES
3. Writing "Home": Sibling Intimacy and Mobility in a Scottish Colonial Memoir 67 ELIZABETH VIBERT
4. Intimacy of the Envelope: Fiction, Commerce, and Empire in the Correspondence of Friends Mary Taylor and Charlotte Bronte, c. 1845-55 89 CHARLOTTE MACDONALD
5. Suva under Steam: Mobile Men and a Colonial Port Capital, 1880s-1910s 110 FRANCES STEEL
6. Performing "Interracial Harmony": Settler Colonialism at the 1934 Pan-Pacific Women's Conference in Hawai'i 127 FIONA PAISLEY
Part 2. "Affective Economics": Sexuality and the Uses of Intimacy
7. "Il a Epouse une Sauvagesse": Indian and Metis Persistence across Imperial and National Borders 149 MICHAEL A. MCDONNELL
8. "Miss Indian Territory" and "Mr. Oklahoma Territory": Marriage, Settlement, and Citizenship in the Cherokee Nation and the United States 172 KERRY WYNN
9. Genealogies and Histories in Collision: Tourism and Colonial Contestations in Hawai'i, 1900-1930 190 CHRISTINE M. SKWIOT
10. Intimate Assimilation: Comparing White-Indigenous Intermarriage in the United States and Australia, 1880s-1930s 211 KATHERINE ELLINGHAUS
Part 3. Bodies on the Move: Scandals of Imperial Space
11. "Faire and Well-Formed": Portuguese Eurasian Women and Symbolic Whiteness in Early Colonial India 231 ADRIAN CARTON
12. The Sorceress, the Servant, and the Stays: Sexuality and Race in Eighteenth-Century Britain 252 DANA RABIN
13. Social Mobilities at the Cape of Good Hope: Lady Anne Barnard, Samuel Hudson, and the Opportunities of Empire, c. 1797-1824 274 KIRSTEN MCKENZIE
14. Islands of Intimacy: Community, Kinship, and Domesticity, Salt Spring Island, 1866 296 ADELE PERRY
15. Telling Tales of Ko'olau: Containing and Mobilizing Disease in Colonial Hawai'i 315 MICHELLE T. MORAN
Epilogue: The Intimate, the Translocal, and the Imperial in an Age of Mobility 335 TONY BALLANTYNE AND ANTOINETTE BURTON
Contributors 339
Index 343
