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Book SynopsisStarting with the premise that Europe was made by its imperial projects as much as colonial encounters were shaped by events and conflicts in Europe, this volume investigates metropolitan-colonial relationships. It shows how "civilizing missions" often provided new sites for a bourgeois order.
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Between Metropole and Colony:
Rethinking a Research Agenda
Ann Laura Stoler and Frederick Cooper
Part I
Framings
1 Liberal Strategies of Exclusion
Uday S. Mehta
2 Imperialism and Motherhood
Anna Davin
3 Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence
of Colonial Discourse
Homi Bhabha
Part II
Making Boundaries
Contents
4 Images of Empire, Contests of Conscience:
Models of Colonial Domination in South Africa
John L. Comaroff
5 Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers:
European Identities and the Cultural Politics
of Exclusion in Colonial Southeast Asia
Ann Laura Stoler
6 "The Conversion of Englishmen and the Conversion
of the World Inseparable": Missionary Imperialism
and the Language of Class in Early Industrial Britain
Susan Thorne
7 Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the German
Colonial Empire
Lora Wildenthal
Part III
Colonial Projects
8 "Le bebe en brousse": European Women, African Birth
Spacing, and Colonial Intervention in Breast Feeding
in the Belgian Congo
Nancy Rose Hunt
9 Tradition in the Service of Modernity: Architecture and
Urbanism in French Colonial Policy, 190G-1930
Gwendolyn Wright
10 Educating Conformity in French Colonial Algeria
Fanny Colonna
Part IV
Contesting the Categories of Rule
11 The Difference-Deferral of a Colonial Modernity:
Public Debates on Domesticity in British Bengal
Dipesh Chakrabarty
12 The Dialectics of Decolonization: Nationalism
and Labor Movements in Postwar French Africa
Frederick Cooper
13 Cars Out of Place: Vampires, Technology, and Labor
in East and Central Africa
Luise White
Notes on Contributors
Index
