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Book SynopsisAntoinette Burton uses a mid-twentieth-century Indian-American authors career to analyze broader issues of postwar Americas understanding of itself and the wider world.Trade Review“In The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau, Antoinette Burton produces a notably intelligent and counterintuitive reading of the forgotten and/or trivialized genealogies of colonial/postcolonial cosmopolitanism. Focusing on the career of a putatively minor writer with a complex relationship to the project of decolonization, Cold War politics, U.S. civil rights movements, and corporate publishing, Burton re-inflects the ways we have been accustomed to thinking about gendered professionalism, celebrity status, minoritization, and the history of postcolonial theory. What is most impressive is the way that she manages to make something densely textured and timely out of materials that might otherwise be relegated to antiquarian interest alone.”—Parama Roy, author of Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India“Once again Antoinette Burton proves to be a trailblazer in the study of imperial culture. Here Burton breaks new ground by forcing us to think anew the place of the postcolonial public intellectual. She takes a risk by focusing on the admittedly ‘minor’ and yet remarkable career of Santha Rama Rau, whose moment of celebrity in the United States was shaped by the particular conjunction of postwar decolonization with Cold War–U.S. imperialism and Nehruvian Indian nationalism. Burton’s dazzling account of Rama Rau’s career, told with characteristic verve and imagination, pays handsome dividends: it offers nothing short of a rich and multilayered genealogy of postcolonial cosmopolitanism. Her virtuoso reading of the production and reception of Rama Rau’s writings provides the mediation between an individual career and the larger social forces of the time.”—Mrinalini Sinha, author of Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an EmpireTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The East as a Postcolonial Career 1 1. Cold War Cosmopolitanism: The Education of Santha Rama Rau in the Age of Bandung, 1945–1960 32 2. Interpreting British India in Anglo-America: The Cultural Politics of Santha Rama Rau’s A Passage to India, 1960x2005 71 3. Home to India: Cooking with Santha Rama Rau 109 Epilogue: Cosmopolitanism by Any Other Name 145 Notes 153 Selected Bibliography 195 Index 209

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Book SynopsisThrough an analysis of the writings of three 20th-century Indian women, this book explores how the memoirs, fictions and histories written by women can be read as counter-narratives of colonial modernity.Trade Review... excellent and original ... a timely and indispensable contribution to the debate on archive and its discontents. * Cultural Geographies *

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Book SynopsisExplores an important but neglected historical dimension of the relationship between feminism and imperialism. Demonstrating how feminists in the United Kingdom appropriated imperialistic ideology and rhetoric to justify their own right to equality, Antoinette Burton reveals a variety of feminisms grounded in notions of moral and racial superiority.

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Book SynopsisAntoinette Burton is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, USA. Her recent publications include An ABC of Queen Victoria's Empire: Or a Primer of Conquest, Dissent and Disruption (Bloomsbury, 2017) and How Empire Shaped Us (Bloomsbury, 2016).Tony Ballantyne is Professor of History at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His recent publications include Entanglements of empire: Missionaries, Maori, and the question of the body (2014) and co-edited with Antoinette Burton Empires and the reach of the global: 1870-1945 (2009).Trade ReviewPraise for the first edition: 'Most of the chapters in this fine collection would work very well in the undergraduate classroom … Each chapter chooses a small group of examples or moments to focus on, with brief mention of others, so students won't get buried in a mass of names and dates. The book as a whole could be assigned in thematic upper-level or graduate courses, both for its content and for the examples that the chapters provide about how to write comparative and world/global history on a specific topic in a research-paper length format. Because many of its examples are not ones often discussed, more advanced scholars of world history would gain by reading the book as well.' * World History Connected *Antoinette Burton and Tony Ballantyne present a highly readable collection of essays that will challenge both scholars and students to rethink traditional approaches to world history ... Ambitious in scope but meticulous in detail, this collection functions equally well as a primer for undergraduate students or as a resource for advanced scholars seeking to draw wider transnational connections with their work ... The essays included in this volume present an impressively coherent narrative when read together but also function well as stand-alone pieces. * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History *“This collection of essays goes a long way toward “localizing” global history and at the same time “de-nationalizing” the study of the past. Whereas globalization has tended to be understood in terms of transnational movements of people, goods, and ideas, the contributors here examine these phenomena in local contexts. At the same time, they analyze how seemingly disparate developments in various parts of the world have also been shared across national boundaries, thus fostering a world of hybridity in which we live. The volume should serve as an excellent starting point for the understanding of the closely interconnected and at the same time intensely localized world that exists today.” * Akira Iriye, Charles Warren Professor of American History, Emeritus, Harvard University, USA *“An essential introduction to the study of world/global history, this book builds upon the best of recent research to develop original and suggestive approaches that emphasize history from "the bottom up,” that is, the real-life struggles of ordinary people across the world to maintain and reshape their lives.” * Lynn Hunt, Distinguished Research Professor of History, University of California Los Angeles, USA *This revised collection of essays proposes ways of understanding world histories by focusing on how common people mobilized, challenged, and negotiated power across time and place. World Histories From Below is filled with innovative scholarship on the Global South that provides convincing alternatives to national-colonial and Western narratives. * Sharon Block, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine, USA *World Histories From Below charts new directions for students of world history. Its insistent focus on the perspective of the marginalized makes the narrative of world history newly available for the imagining of radical futures within and beyond the classroom. This is the book for teaching world history that we have been long awaiting. * Mrinalini Sinha, Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History, University of Michigan, USA *With welcome new material, the second edition of this superb essay collection offers an outstanding introduction to the approaches, challenges, and insights of World History. There's complementarity between the thematic chapters and contributors' analyses tease out the global patterns, complexities, and consequences of human interaction, from revolutionary protest to environmental change. * Martin Thomas, Professor of Imperial History, University of Exeter, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Keywords: "World History," "Below," and "Dissent and Disruption", Antoinette Burton and Tony Ballantyne 1. Modern Political Revolutions: Connecting Grassroots Political Dissent and Global Historical Transformations, M.J. Maynes and Ann Waltner 2. International and Global Anti-Colonial Movements, Heather Streets-Salter 3. Insurgent Citizenship: Armed Rebellions and Everyday Acts of Resistance in the Global South, Eileen M. Ford 4. Indigeneity, Movement, and Disrupting the Global Nineteenth Century, T. J. Tallie 5. Body Politics, Sexualities, and the "Modern Family" in Global History, Durba Ghosh 6. The Persistence of the Gods: Religion in the Modern World, Tony Ballantyne 7. Global Mobilities, Clare Anderson 8. The Anthropocene from Below, Nancy J. Jacobs, Danielle Johnstone and Christopher Kelly 9. The Anthropocene’s “Belows”: Nature and Power in Global History, Robert Rouphail

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An Illinois Sampler: Teaching and Research on the Prairie highlights teaching methods at the University of Illinois that can be applied elsewhere. It would be an excellent book for a new professor, including one looking for field opportunities for their students. An Illinois Sampler is both a recommended read and endeavor."--Reflective Teaching"In this timely volume and in fields as diverse as dance, geology, music, medicine, kinesiology, mathematics, engineering, and microbiology we have first-hand accounts of what faculty members are doing to make a better tomorrow. The narratives are as inspiring as they are practical and deserve to be shared and read by those who care about the quality of American universities."--Stanley Ikenberry, President Emeritus, University of Illinois"The land-grant model is discovery of new knowledge, teaching students, and engaging the broader community. Something is lost when you try to separate the three concepts because they are mutually enriching--discovery comes in part by engaging the community, discovery by faculty and students strengthens education, etcetera. In this time of accountability and scarce resources, the academy must better explain this integration of effort, particularly in connection with the allocation of faculty time and compensation to research and engagement. The stories of scholar-educators from the University of Illinois, one of the great land-grant universities of the country, wonderfully illustrate how this all works."--Peter McPherson, President Emeritus of Michigan State University and President of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities"The late Ernie Boyer inspired his readers when he wrote about the 'scholarship' of teaching. Years later, the engagement of faculty in the scholarly assessment of what students know and can do and in the exploration of ways in which these outcomes might be improved remains a formidable challenge. This is especially the case in complex research universities. In this timely volume and in fields as diverse as dance, geology, music, medicine, kinesiology, mathematics, engineering, and microbiology we have firsthand accounts of what faculty members are doing to make a better tomorrow. The narratives are as inspiring as they are practical and deserve to be shared and read by those who care about the quality of American universities."--Stanley Ikenberry, President Emeritus of the University of Illinois

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Book SynopsisInvestigating how intimacy is constructed across the restless world of empireTrade 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 MichiganTable 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 Spaces1. 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 Intimacy7. "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 Space11. "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

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An Illinois Sampler: Teaching and Research on the Prairie highlights teaching methods at the University of Illinois that can be applied elsewhere. It would be an excellent book for a new professor, including one looking for field opportunities for their students. An Illinois Sampler is both a recommended read and endeavor."--Reflective Teaching"In this timely volume and in fields as diverse as dance, geology, music, medicine, kinesiology, mathematics, engineering, and microbiology we have first-hand accounts of what faculty members are doing to make a better tomorrow. The narratives are as inspiring as they are practical and deserve to be shared and read by those who care about the quality of American universities."--Stanley Ikenberry, President Emeritus, University of Illinois"The land-grant model is discovery of new knowledge, teaching students, and engaging the broader community. Something is lost when you try to separate the three concepts because they are mutually enriching--discovery comes in part by engaging the community, discovery by faculty and students strengthens education, etcetera. In this time of accountability and scarce resources, the academy must better explain this integration of effort, particularly in connection with the allocation of faculty time and compensation to research and engagement. The stories of scholar-educators from the University of Illinois, one of the great land-grant universities of the country, wonderfully illustrate how this all works."--Peter McPherson, President Emeritus of Michigan State University and President of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities"The late Ernie Boyer inspired his readers when he wrote about the 'scholarship' of teaching. Years later, the engagement of faculty in the scholarly assessment of what students know and can do and in the exploration of ways in which these outcomes might be improved remains a formidable challenge. This is especially the case in complex research universities. In this timely volume and in fields as diverse as dance, geology, music, medicine, kinesiology, mathematics, engineering, and microbiology we have firsthand accounts of what faculty members are doing to make a better tomorrow. The narratives are as inspiring as they are practical and deserve to be shared and read by those who care about the quality of American universities."--Stanley Ikenberry, President Emeritus of the University of Illinois

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Book SynopsisIntends to assess the fate of the nation as a subject of disciplinary inquiry. This title investigates whether the nation remains central, adequate, or even possible as an analytical category for studying history. It includes twenty essays that exemplify cultural approaches to histories of nationalism and imperialism.Trade Review“After the Imperial Turn is an important collection of essays marking the 'coming of age' of 'new imperial history.’ One of its great strengths is its range—from the big picture to the local study, from the pedagogic to the institutional, from the British exemplar to a number of comparative perspectives, from the U.S. to the Caribbean and Hong Kong. This is an essential read for aspiring young historians.”—Catherine Hall, author of Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867“This is a timely intervention in the conversation on the nation sparked by critiques of the imperial foundations of modern nations and disciplines. It both assesses the fruits of the ‘imperial turn’ in scholarship and charts new directions on how to think and teach in the aftermath of the critiques of the nation. Incorporating perspectives from a range of disciplines and locations, the essays offer challenging reflections on the historicity of the present.”—Gyan Prakash, editor of After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial DisplacementsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: On the Inadequacy and the Indispensability of the Nation / Antoinette Burton 1 1. Nations, Empires, Disciplines: Thinking beyond the Boundaries Rethinking British Studies: Is There Life after Empire? / Susan D. Pennybacker 27 Transcending the Nation: A Global Imperial History? / Stuart Ward 44 Empire and “the Nation”: Institutional Practice, Pedagogy, and Nation in the Classroom / Heather Streets 57 We've Just Started Making National Histories, and You Want Us to Stop Already? / Ann Curthoys 70 Losing Our Way after the Imperial Turn: Charting Academic Uses of the Postcolonial / Terri A. Hasseler and Paula M. Krebs 90 Rereading the Archive and Opening up the Nation-State: Colonial Knowledge in South Asia (and Beyond) / Tony Ballantyne 102 2. Fortresses and Frontiers: Beyond and Within Unthinking French History: Colonial Studies beyond National Identity / Gary Wilder 125 Notes on a History of “Imperial Turns” in Modern Germany / Lora Wildenthal 144 After “Spain”: A Dialogue with Josep M. Fradera on Spanish Colonial Historiography / Christopher Schmidt-Nowara 157 Making the World Safe for American History / Robert Gregg 170 Asian American Global Discourses and the Problem of History / Augusto Espiritu 186 Race, Nationality, Mobility: A History of the Passport / Radhika Viyas Mongia 196 3. Reorienting the Nation: Logics of Empire, Colony, Globe Periodizing Johnson: Anticolonial Modernity as Crux and Critique / Clement Hawes 217 The Pudding and the Palace: Labor, Print Culture, and Imperial Britain in 1851 / Lara Kriegel 230 Double Meanings: Nation and Empire in the Edwardian Era / Ian Christopher Fletcher 246 The Fashionable World: Imagined Communities of Dress / Kristin Hoganson 260 The Romance of White Nations: Imperialism, Popular Culture, and National Histories / Hsu-Ming Teo 279 Britain's Finest: The Royal Hong Kong Police / Karen Fang 293 One-Way Traffic: George Lamming and the Portable Empire / John Plotz 308 The Whiteness of Civilization: The Transatlantic Crisis of White Supremacy and British Television Programming in the United States in the 1970s / Douglas M. Haynes 324 Selected Bibliography 343 About the Contributors 357 Index 361

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Book SynopsisThis reader on world history emphasizes the centrality of raced, sexed, and classed bodies as sites on which imperial power was imagined and exercised, in order to examine the effects of global politics, capital and culture on everyday spaces and local cultural encountersTrade Review“Bodies in Contact is an excellent work, full of lively essays based on an engaging variety of historical perspectives. Instructors in world history rightly complain that there is little available to students that covers gender. This volume helps fill that gap with articles on important issues in the history of contact and empire.”—Bonnie G. Smith, author of The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Bodies, Empires and World Histories / Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton 1 I. Thresholds of Modernity: Mapping Genders Masculinity and the Bangash Nawabs of Farrukhabad / Rosalind O'Hanlon 19 An Island of Women: Gender in the Qing Travel Writing about Taiwan / Emma Jinhua Teng 38 Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology, 1500–1700 / Jennifer L. Morgan 54 Christian Morality in Spain: The Nahua Woman in the Franciscan Imaginary / Rebecca Overmeyer-Velazquez 67 Eva's Men: Gender and Power at the Cape of Good Hope / Julia C. Wells 84 Colonial Bodies, Hygiene, and Abolitionist Politics in the Eighteenth-Century France / Sean Quinlan 106 II. Global Empires, Local Encounters Women, Property, and Power in Eighteenth-Century Cairo / Mary Ann Fay 125 Reproducing Colonialism in British Columbia, 1849–1871 / Adele Perry 143 Native American and Metis Women as "Public Mothers" in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest / Lucy Eldersveld Murphy 164 Britishness, Clubbability, and the Colonial Public Sphere / Mrinalini Sinha 183 Muscular Catholicism: Nationalism, Masculinity, and Gaelic Team Sports, 1884–1916 / Patrick F. McDevitt 201 Reproducing the "French Race": Immigration and Pronationalism in Early-Twentieth Century France / Elisa Camiscioli 219 Race Hysteria, Darwin 1938 / Fiona Paisley 234 Tattooed Secrets: Women's History in Magude District, Southern Mozambique / Heidi Gengenbach 253 III. The Mobility of Politics and the Politics of Mobility An Ottoman Occidentalist in Europe: Ahmad Midhat Meets Madame Gulnar, 1889 / Carter Vaughn Findley 277 Out of India: The Journey of the Begam of Bhopal, 1901–1930 / Siobhan Lambert Hurley 293 Celibacy, Sexuality, and Nationalism in North India / Joseph S. Alter 310 Women's Liberation and Islam in Soviet Uzbekistan, 1926–1941 / Shoshana Keller 321 Gender, Powers, and U. S. Imperialism: The Occupation of Japan, 1945–1952 / Mire Koikari 342 History and Memory: The "Comfort Women" Controversy / Hyun Sook Kim 363 "One Black Allah": The Middle East in the Cultural Politics of African American Liberation, 1955–1970 / Melani McAllister 383 Postscript: Bodies, Genders, Empires: Reimagining World Histories / Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton 405 Contributors 425 Index 441

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Book SynopsisThis anthology compares scholarly findings from around the world to comment on the creation, definition, and use of archival evidence in the writing of historyTrade Review“Archive Stories 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 The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice“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 Dust: The Archive and Cultural HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Archive Fever, Archive Stories / Antoinette Burton 1 Part I. Close Encounters: The Archive as Contact Zone 25 National Narratives and the Politics of Miscegenation: Britain and India / Durba Ghosh 27 “Without the Past There is No Future”: Archives, History, and Authority in Uzbekistan / Jeff Sahadeo 45 Mechanisms of Exclusion: Historicizing the Archive and the Passport / Craig Roberston 68 Mr. Peal’s Archive: Mobility and Exchange in Histories of Empire / Tony Ballantyne 87 A Living Archive of Desire: Teresita la Campesina and the Embodient of Queer Latino Community Histories / Horacio N. Roque Ramirez 111 Toiling in the Archives of Cyberspace / Renee M. Sentilles 136 Part II. States of Art: “Official” Archives and Counter-Histories 157 “What Is an Archive?” in the History of Modern France / Jennifer S. Milligan 159 The Archive and the Case of the German Nation / Peter Fritzsche 184 On the Biography of the Bakunin Family Archive / John Randolph 209 Creating the “Suffragette Spirit”: British Feminism and the Historical Imagination / Laura Mayhall 232 Archives of the Unbuilt Environment: Documents and Discourses of Imagined Space in Twentieth-Century Kohler, Wisconsin / Kathryn J. Oberdeck 251 Fiction’s Imaginative Archive and the Newspaper’s Local Scandals: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Egypt / Marilyn Booth 274 Part III. Archive Matters: The Past in the Present 297 In Good Hands: Researching the 1976 Soweto Uprising in the State Archives of South Africa / Helena Pohlandt-McCormick 299 The Colonial Archive on Trial: Possession, Dispossession, and History in Delgamuukw v. British Columbia / Adele Perry 325 The History of Killing and the Killing of History / Ann Curthoys 351 Selected Bibliography 375 Contributors 381 Index 385

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Book SynopsisEssays 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.Trade Review“Antoinette Burton’s body of work is central to the debates over national, imperial, and postcolonial histories. Empire in Question is a most welcome collection of her essays, and required reading for anyone in this field. It contains classics, less well-known pieces, and new work. Characteristically, it is full of questions and challenges, both to herself and to her readers. We see a critical and imaginative historian at work, fully engaged both with the times in which she lives, and the times she evokes for us in the past.”—Catherine Hall, Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History, University College London“No one has done more than Antoinette Burton to challenge the autonomies of national history, indeed the very ‘certainty of the nation as an analytical category’ itself. Inspired both by the archive’s possibilities and the promise of feminist and postcolonial critique, she turns the ever-seductive sufficiencies of British history radically inside out. While brilliantly showing how and why the histories of nation and empire have to be written together, Empire in Question also documents the continuing transformations of the discipline of history since the 1980s, speaking eloquently to specialists across many different fields.”—Geoff Eley, author of A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society“The development of the ‘new imperial history’ is considered in this book by a scholar who helped to shape the field. Antoinette Burton has insisted that the vectors of imperial power run in many directions and that race must be incorporated into history writing, and argued that gender and sexuality are critical dimensions of imperial history. This collection of essays includes her groundbreaking critiques of British historiography, as well as essays in which she views topics from Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre to nostalgia for colonial India through the lens of theory, and a coda in which she candidly assesses shortcomings in her own thinking.” * Times Higher Education *“Empire in Question demonstrates the vitality of cultural studies in capturing the relational dynamics of gender and race and their entwined framing of the lived spaces of imperial rule.” -- Manu Goswami * Journal of Modern History *“Burton's new book should be read by everyone interested in the history of the British Empire over the last two centuries. Burton has been a leader, as Bayly comments in his afterword, in destabilizing the Whiggish, white man's model of imperial history. Her book importantly challenges the ways in which historians and the publics they influence continue to think about imperialism (both British and American) as well as about globalization, race, gender, and the practice and teaching of history.” -- Patrick Brantlinger * Review 19 * “[A]n important retrospective of new imperial history’s development into a vital approach to British historical studies…. Brought together as it is in this volume, Burton’s work demonstrates the challenges, but more so the vital importance, of continuing to push ourselves and British studies past these historiographical barriers to a fuller view of the multiplicity of peoples and places that shape historical and contemporary global systems.” -- Nicole M. Mares * Journal of World History *“This is history with politics and scholarship bound up together, where anything can become the material of the historian if viewed with a discerning eye, where the present and the past are constantly in dialogue, constantly up for question.” -- Yasmin Khan * History Workshop Journal *“Antoinette Burton’s interrogation of empire has made reading, writing and teaching British imperialism a more stimulating and rewarding enterprise.” -- Gavin Rand * Journal of Victorian Culture Online *“Antoinette Burton’s collection of articles in the book, Empire in Question show her theoretical acumen and serve as theoretical harbinger for future aspiring imperial historians.... This book is a treasure trove of information on imperial history and a necessary text for aspiring imperial historians, graduate students, and for those nostalgic for the Empire. It can only be hoped that such rethinking and researching of this nature would happen in the other areas of history of India as well.” -- Lavanya Vemsani * Itinerario *Table of ContentsForeword / 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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Book SynopsisOffers principles to consider when creating a world history syllabus; and prompts a teacher, rather than aiming for full world coverage, to pick an interpretive focus and thread it through the course.Trade Review"Antoinette Burton has done everyone who teaches world history a great service: she shows how the most significant new work by scholars can be incorporated in ways that make world history more exciting, satisfying, and successful at introducing students to historical thinking and writing. No one who teaches this survey will remain untouched by what she has to say."—Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, University of California, Los Angeles"Antoinette Burton's concise but meaty book provides essential advice for the many new and experienced instructors faced with the daunting challenge of teaching world history in what are often ever-larger classes. Its emphasis on creating a course around certain design principles is both welcome and timely, allowing instructors to develop a course that is both meaningful and manageable."—Merry Wiesner-Hanks, Distinguished Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee“What emerges from the work is a portrait of a reflective historian. Burton has created her own course, built on her own specialties in the British Empire and the body. She is thus a knowledgeable and opinionated guide…Therefore, it is a work that should be read and discussed by all serious practitioners.” -- Jeremy Greene * World History Connected *“Burton offers guidance for both the area specialist hired to teach a class for which they lack specific training, and the secondary teacher, who, even with an assigned textbook, must choose what shape their course will have…. There is plenty here to engage the experienced classroom teacher…. [T]eachers at every level will find most useful Burton’s description of the many strategies and teaching techniques which she has used successfully.” -- Dean T. Ferguson * The History Teacher *“For those writing, teaching, or reading about global Christian history, there is much of value in Burton's volume, and yet it is not just about Christianity. She raises significant issues of meaning, value, and connection…without concluding what must or should be taught. She opens a number of doors for global historical scholarship, but each writer and teacher must decide which ones to enter, and to what purpose.” -- Scott W. Sunquist * International Bulletin of Missionary Research *“This book is recommended reading for all teachers and PhD students who want to know more about world history and are looking for practical suggestions on how to design and organise their syllabus.” -- Dario Miccoli * European Review of History *“Burton’s examples of syllabus design and teaching strategies are… imaginative and lively… and they break away from the textbook world history model that often feels like a history of the West and the rest…. Burton’s book will resonate most with those teachers who have learned from experience how much they can—and must—‘dare to omit’ in their pursuit of effective, skills-based teaching.” -- Jonathan E. Robbins * History: Reviews of New Books *"[Burton's] emphasis on choosing a theme that unifies (and narrows) coverage of the world's different regions, while also creating course assignments that develop students' skills, is particularly helpful to teachers at both college and high school levels faced with the otherwise daunting and overwhelming task of fairly and adequately covering the history of the entire world.... Since studying World History is such an important corrective to past practices, it is good that Burton guides teachers. Any history teacher, and many others in interdisciplinary or area studies, will benefit from reading this book." -- Gail M. Presbey * Journal of Third World Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii How to Make Use of This Book ix Introduction. Why Design? Thinking through World History 101 1 Part I. Laying Foundations 11 1. Timing: When to Start 13 2. Centering Connectivity 25 3. How to Do More than "Include Women" 37 4. World History from Below 49 Part II. Devising Strategies 61 5. The Event as a Teaching Tool 63 6. Genealogy as a Teaching Tool 73 7. Empire as a Teaching Tool 83 Part III. Teaching Technologies 8. Teaching "Digital Natives" 95 9. Global Archive Stories 107 10. Testing (for) the Global 117 Epilogue. Never Done 127 Notes 131 Selected Bibliography 141 Index 149

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Book SynopsisDesigned for classroom use, this book gathers in one volume primary source materials related to the first two wars that Great Britain launched against native leaders of the Afghan region. It is a cautionary tale, unheeded by Western powers in the post-9/11 era.Trade Review"The reader illustrates the importance of finding elusive local perspectives on the first Anglo–Afghan wars to achieve a nuanced understandingof the conflicts." -- Robert Eric Colvard * Itinerario *"Current Western leaders could definitely benefit from reading the essays in this volume." -- Harold E. Raugh, Jr. * International Journal of Military History *"Overall, Burton’s impressive collection of documents offers a great deal to students and scholars alike. It will enliven classroom debate in courses on imperialism, warfare, and South and Central Asia. The book provides a much-needed history of recent and contemporary warfare, especially in Afghanistan, South Asia, and the Middle East." -- Kate Imy * H-War, H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsForeword / Andrew J. Bacevich ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Anglo-Afghan Wars in Historical Perspective 1 Part I. Strategic Interests on the Road to Kabul 15 Part II. The First Anglo-Afghan War, 1839-1842: Occupation, Route, Defeat, Captivity 43 Part III. The Second Anglo-Afghan War, 1878-1880: Imperial Insecurities, Global Stakes 127 Part IV. The Great Game, 1880-1919 189 Selected Bibliography of Secondary Sources 255 Reprint Acknowledgments 257 Index 259

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Book SynopsisLooking at ten books that shaped the modern British Empire, the contributors examine imperial classics, anticolonial blockbusters, and a range of pamphlets, assessing the effects of each one on key aspects of imperial history.Trade Review"Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons will prove invaluable to scholars working on imperial print cultures, attempting to think globally in Victorian or American studies, or otherwise seeking to unfield British Empire studies." -- Kellie D. Holzer * History: Reviews of New Books *"Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire . . . sketches an important new nexus for the analysis of print cultures and empires, tracing the ways in which print was embedded in imperial contexts and could inflect those contexts." -- Robert J. Mayhew * Journal of Historical Geography *"Ten Books that Shaped the British Empire works well because the books reviewed in it are diverse in origin, subject, and intention, and because the essays are all of a very high quality; the essays work together to inform and stimulate their readers’ further thinking about the cultural workings of colonization and decolonization. It is a book well worth reading as a whole. Together, it becomes much more than the sum of its many parts." -- Lisa Chilton * Canadian Journal of History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. The Spine of Empire? Books and the Making of an Imperial Commons / Antoinette Burton and Isabel Hofmeyr 1 1. Remaking the Empire from Newgate: Wakefield's A Letter from Sydney / Tony Ballantyne 29 2. Jane Eyre at Home and Abroad / Charlotte MacDonald 50 3. Macaulay's History of England: A Book That Shaped Nation and Empire / Catherine Hall 71 4. "The Day Will Come": Charles H. Pearson's National Life and Character: A Forecast / Marilyn Lake 90 5. Victims of "British Justice"? A Century of Wrong as Anti-imperial Tract, Core Narrative of the Afrikaner "Nation," and Victim-Based Solidarity-Building Discourse / Andre Du Toit 112 6. The Text in the World, the World through the Text: Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys / Elleke Boehmer 131 7. Hind Swaraj: Translating Sovereignty / Tridip Suhrud 153 8. Totaram Sanadhya's Fiji Mein Mere Ekkis Varsh: A History of Empire and Nation in a Minor Key / Mrinalini Sinha 168 9. C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins and the Making of the Modern Atlantic World / Aaron Kamugisha 190 10. Ethnography and Cultural Innovation in Mau Mau Detention Camps: Gakaara wa Wanjau's Mihiriga ya Agikuyu / Derek R. Peterson 216 Bibliography 239 Contributors 261 Index 265

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Book SynopsisLooking at ten books that shaped the modern British Empire, the contributors examine imperial classics, anticolonial blockbusters, and a range of pamphlets, assessing the effects of each one on key aspects of imperial history.Trade Review"Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons will prove invaluable to scholars working on imperial print cultures, attempting to think globally in Victorian or American studies, or otherwise seeking to unfield British Empire studies." -- Kellie D. Holzer * History: Reviews of New Books *"Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire . . . sketches an important new nexus for the analysis of print cultures and empires, tracing the ways in which print was embedded in imperial contexts and could inflect those contexts." -- Robert J. Mayhew * Journal of Historical Geography *"Ten Books that Shaped the British Empire works well because the books reviewed in it are diverse in origin, subject, and intention, and because the essays are all of a very high quality; the essays work together to inform and stimulate their readers’ further thinking about the cultural workings of colonization and decolonization. It is a book well worth reading as a whole. Together, it becomes much more than the sum of its many parts." -- Lisa Chilton * Canadian Journal of History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. The Spine of Empire? Books and the Making of an Imperial Commons / Antoinette Burton and Isabel Hofmeyr 1 1. Remaking the Empire from Newgate: Wakefield's A Letter from Sydney / Tony Ballantyne 29 2. Jane Eyre at Home and Abroad / Charlotte MacDonald 50 3. Macaulay's History of England: A Book That Shaped Nation and Empire / Catherine Hall 71 4. "The Day Will Come": Charles H. Pearson's National Life and Character: A Forecast / Marilyn Lake 90 5. Victims of "British Justice"? A Century of Wrong as Anti-imperial Tract, Core Narrative of the Afrikaner "Nation," and Victim-Based Solidarity-Building Discourse / Andre Du Toit 112 6. The Text in the World, the World through the Text: Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys / Elleke Boehmer 131 7. Hind Swaraj: Translating Sovereignty / Tridip Suhrud 153 8. Totaram Sanadhya's Fiji Mein Mere Ekkis Varsh: A History of Empire and Nation in a Minor Key / Mrinalini Sinha 168 9. C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins and the Making of the Modern Atlantic World / Aaron Kamugisha 190 10. Ethnography and Cultural Innovation in Mau Mau Detention Camps: Gakaara wa Wanjau's Mihiriga ya Agikuyu / Derek R. Peterson 216 Bibliography 239 Contributors 261 Index 265

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Book SynopsisAntoinette Burton challenges nostalgic narratives of the Afro-Asian solidarity that emerged from the 1955 Bandung conference by showing how postcolonial Indian identity was based on the subordination of Africans and blackness.Trade Review"A highly stimulating study of the (dis)continuities of colonial discourses of race and gender into the framework of transnational solidarity inspired by the Bandung spirit. . . . Burton’s book offers a major contribution to our understanding of how India imagined Africa (and, consequently, itself as an independent nation state) and raises the important challenge of re-thinking and complicating the postcolonial histories of Afro-Asian connections." -- Luca Raimondi * African Studies Quarterly *"[Burton's] work implores scholars to locate new archives and tell more nuanced interpretations of the global south. She also encourages readers to reconsider the significance of race and gender in challenging and at times undermining the rhetorical and material projects developed under the banner of Afro-Asianism. Burton’s work will certainly stimulate a robust and welcome debate." -- Michele Louro * Canadian Journal of History *"The book makes powerful theoretical contributions by desegregating Indian and African histories across the postcolonial Indian Ocean region, infusing their study with feminist historical methods, and writing race into geopolitics." -- Ned Bertz * Journal of African History *"Ambitious and theoretically rigorous. . . . Burton engages with an impressive range of scholarship as she complicates our understanding of Indian-African interactions and raises larger issues dealing with the legacy of imperialism and the development of the postcolonial state." -- Timothy Nicholson * Ufahamu *“Antoinette Burton is a master historian, who has proven her skill and craft time and again. In this volume, she presents four individual essays with thoughtful nuance, highlighting the presence of complex relationships of race, gender, and politics between different groups of disenfranchised people.” -- Jyoti Mohan * H-Empire, H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsForeword / Isabel Hofmeyr viii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Citing/Siting Africa in the Indian Postcolonial Imagination 1 1. "Every Secret Thing"? Racial Politics in Ansuyah R. Singh's Behold the Earth Mourns (1960) 27 2. Race and the Politics of Position: Above and Below in Frank Moraes' The Importance of Being Black (1965) 57 3. Fictions of Postcolonial Development: Race, Intimacy and Afro-Asian Solidarity in Chanakya Sen's The Morning After (1973) 89 4. Hands and Feed: Phyllis Naidoo's Impressions of Anti-apartheid History (2002-2006) 123 Epilogue 167 Index 173

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Book SynopsisAntoinette Burton challenges nostalgic narratives of the Afro-Asian solidarity that emerged from the 1955 Bandung conference by showing how postcolonial Indian identity was based on the subordination of Africans and blackness.Trade Review"A highly stimulating study of the (dis)continuities of colonial discourses of race and gender into the framework of transnational solidarity inspired by the Bandung spirit. . . . Burton’s book offers a major contribution to our understanding of how India imagined Africa (and, consequently, itself as an independent nation state) and raises the important challenge of re-thinking and complicating the postcolonial histories of Afro-Asian connections." -- Luca Raimondi * African Studies Quarterly *"[Burton's] work implores scholars to locate new archives and tell more nuanced interpretations of the global south. She also encourages readers to reconsider the significance of race and gender in challenging and at times undermining the rhetorical and material projects developed under the banner of Afro-Asianism. Burton’s work will certainly stimulate a robust and welcome debate." -- Michele Louro * Canadian Journal of History *"The book makes powerful theoretical contributions by desegregating Indian and African histories across the postcolonial Indian Ocean region, infusing their study with feminist historical methods, and writing race into geopolitics." -- Ned Bertz * Journal of African History *"Ambitious and theoretically rigorous. . . . Burton engages with an impressive range of scholarship as she complicates our understanding of Indian-African interactions and raises larger issues dealing with the legacy of imperialism and the development of the postcolonial state." -- Timothy Nicholson * Ufahamu *“Antoinette Burton is a master historian, who has proven her skill and craft time and again. In this volume, she presents four individual essays with thoughtful nuance, highlighting the presence of complex relationships of race, gender, and politics between different groups of disenfranchised people.” -- Jyoti Mohan * H-Empire, H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsForeword / Isabel Hofmeyr viii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Citing/Siting Africa in the Indian Postcolonial Imagination 1 1. "Every Secret Thing"? Racial Politics in Ansuyah R. Singh's Behold the Earth Mourns (1960) 27 2. Race and the Politics of Position: Above and Below in Frank Moraes' The Importance of Being Black (1965) 57 3. Fictions of Postcolonial Development: Race, Intimacy and Afro-Asian Solidarity in Chanakya Sen's The Morning After (1973) 89 4. Hands and Feed: Phyllis Naidoo's Impressions of Anti-apartheid History (2002-2006) 123 Epilogue 167 Index 173

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Animalia analyze twenty-six animals—from yaks and vultures to whales and platypuses—that played central roles in the history of British imperial control.Trade Review“Animalia shows us how imperial power was both extended through and disturbed by the multiple entanglements of human/animal worlds. The elephants, lions, and tigers familiar to the imperial imagination jostle with mosquitoes, scorpions, and unicorns, offering a rich variety of animal engagements with empire, both for and against their would-be masters. An essential bestiary for our times.” -- Catherine Hall author of * Civilising Subjects. Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830–1867 *“With appealing quirkiness, Animalia introduces readers to the complex ways that humans' treatment of animals offers an informative and genuinely fascinating way of understanding how pervasive the impact of imperialism was and continues to be across the globe. Written with verve and elegance while conveying the surprising importance of all sorts of species to the imperial project, Animalia is an intriguing and exhilarating book.” -- Teresa Mangum, editor of * A Cultural History of Women in the Age of Empire *“Animalia is a charming and creative primer concerning the central role animals played in the British empire.... Inviting further research, the chapters are rich in ideas, themes, and postulations.” -- Miles Alexander Powell * Journal of Pacific History *“Animalia strives to be interdisciplinary not only in the theories and empirical evidence found in the individual contributions but also in the hybrid form of the volume.... Its playful form, fascinating stories, and nuggets of insight offer great potential to serve as a springboard for deeper interdisciplinary explorations.” -- John Soluri * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *“What sets Animalia apart from the rest is the playful and innovative way in which it tells animal stories.... Animalia is informative and encyclopedic and a must-have book for anyone who loves and studies animals.” -- Kaori Nagai * Journal of British Studies *“[Animalia] presents succinct, researched commentaries on a number of the animal species brought under imperial control and thereby reconstitutes the bestiary compendium. . . . This is an A-to-Z compendium for the twenty-first century that points back to the historical taxonomy as it moves forward to trouble its purpose, often by revealing the porous boundaries between species and the instability of ‘animalia’.” -- Peta Tait * Animal Studies Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Animals, the Bestiary Form, and Disruptive Imperial Histories / Antoinette Burton and Renisa Mawani Some Ways to Read This Book A Is for Ape / Amy E. Martin B Is for Boar / Annaliese Claydon C Is for Cattle / Renisa Mawani D Is for Dog / Heidi J. Nast E Is for Elephant / Jonathan Saha F Is for Fox / George Robb G Is for Giraffe / Angela Thompsell H Is for Horse / Jagjeet Lally I Is for Ibis / Renisa Mawani J Is for Jackal (and Dingo) / Isabel Hofmeyr K Is for Kiwi / Tony Ballantyne L Is for Lion / Antoinette Burton M Is for Mosquito / Neel Ahuja N Is for North Atlantic Right Whale / Krista Maglen O Is for Okapi / Sandra Swart P Is for Platypus / Annaliese Claydon Q Is for Quagga / Harriet Ritvo R Is for Racoon / Daniel Heath Justice S Is for Scorpion / Antoinette Burton T Is for Tiger / Dane Kennedy U Is for Unicorn / Utathya Chattopadhyaya V Is for Vulture / Utathya Chattopadhyaya W Is for Whale / Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller X Is for Xerus / Utathya Chattopadhyaya Y Is for Yak / Peter Hansen Z is for Zebu / Michael A. Osborne Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisFrom yaks and vultures to whales and platypuses, animals have played central roles in the history of British imperial control. The contributors to Animalia analyze twenty-six animals—domestic, feral, predatory, and mythical—whose relationship to imperial authorities and settler colonists reveals how the presumed racial supremacy of Europeans underwrote the history of Western imperialism. Victorian imperial authorities, adventurers, and colonists used animals as companions, military transportation, agricultural laborers, food sources, and status symbols. They also overhunted and destroyed ecosystems, laying the groundwork for what has come to be known as climate change. At the same time, animals such as lions, tigers, and mosquitoes interfered in the empire''s racial, gendered, and political aspirations by challenging the imperial project’s sense of inevitability. Unconventional and innovative in form and approach, Animalia invites new ways to consider thTrade Review“Animalia shows us how imperial power was both extended through and disturbed by the multiple entanglements of human/animal worlds. The elephants, lions, and tigers familiar to the imperial imagination jostle with mosquitoes, scorpions, and unicorns, offering a rich variety of animal engagements with empire, both for and against their would-be masters. An essential bestiary for our times.” -- Catherine Hall author of * Civilising Subjects. Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830–1867 *“With appealing quirkiness, Animalia introduces readers to the complex ways that humans' treatment of animals offers an informative and genuinely fascinating way of understanding how pervasive the impact of imperialism was and continues to be across the globe. Written with verve and elegance while conveying the surprising importance of all sorts of species to the imperial project, Animalia is an intriguing and exhilarating book.” -- Teresa Mangum, editor of * A Cultural History of Women in the Age of Empire *“Animalia is a charming and creative primer concerning the central role animals played in the British empire.... Inviting further research, the chapters are rich in ideas, themes, and postulations.” -- Miles Alexander Powell * Journal of Pacific History *“Animalia strives to be interdisciplinary not only in the theories and empirical evidence found in the individual contributions but also in the hybrid form of the volume.... Its playful form, fascinating stories, and nuggets of insight offer great potential to serve as a springboard for deeper interdisciplinary explorations.” -- John Soluri * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *“What sets Animalia apart from the rest is the playful and innovative way in which it tells animal stories.... Animalia is informative and encyclopedic and a must-have book for anyone who loves and studies animals.” -- Kaori Nagai * Journal of British Studies *“[Animalia] presents succinct, researched commentaries on a number of the animal species brought under imperial control and thereby reconstitutes the bestiary compendium. . . . This is an A-to-Z compendium for the twenty-first century that points back to the historical taxonomy as it moves forward to trouble its purpose, often by revealing the porous boundaries between species and the instability of ‘animalia’.” -- Peta Tait * Animal Studies Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Animals, the Bestiary Form, and Disruptive Imperial Histories / Antoinette Burton and Renisa Mawani Some Ways to Read This Book A Is for Ape / Amy E. Martin B Is for Boar / Annaliese Claydon C Is for Cattle / Renisa Mawani D Is for Dog / Heidi J. Nast E Is for Elephant / Jonathan Saha F Is for Fox / George Robb G Is for Giraffe / Angela Thompsell H Is for Horse / Jagjeet Lally I Is for Ibis / Renisa Mawani J Is for Jackal (and Dingo) / Isabel Hofmeyr K Is for Kiwi / Tony Ballantyne L Is for Lion / Antoinette Burton M Is for Mosquito / Neel Ahuja N Is for North Atlantic Right Whale / Krista Maglen O Is for Okapi / Sandra Swart P Is for Platypus / Annaliese Claydon Q Is for Quagga / Harriet Ritvo R Is for Racoon / Daniel Heath Justice S Is for Scorpion / Antoinette Burton T Is for Tiger / Dane Kennedy U Is for Unicorn / Utathya Chattopadhyaya V Is for Vulture / Utathya Chattopadhyaya W Is for Whale / Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller X Is for Xerus / Utathya Chattopadhyaya Y Is for Yak / Peter Hansen Z is for Zebu / Michael A. Osborne Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisAntoinette Burton argues that gender history is hiding in plain sight, at work everywhere we look.This volume introduces the field of gender history--its origins, development, reception, recalibrations, and frictions. It offers a set of working definitions of gender as a descriptive category and as a category of historical analysis, tracing the emergence, usage, and applicability of these entwined subjects across a range of times and places since the 1970s.Inevitably political, gender history has taken aim at the broader field of historical narrative by asking who counts as a historical subject, what difference gender makes, and how attention to it subverts reigning assumptions of what power, culture, economics, and identity have been in the past--and what they are today. The book explores how gender analysis has changed interpretations of the histories of slavery, capitalism, migration, and empire. As a field, gender history has been extraordinarily influential in shaping several generations of scholars and students. The fact that its early emphasis on the relationship between masculinity and femininity was part of a larger set of challenges to universal history by poststructuralism, postmodernism, and postcolonialism positions it at the heart of some of the most fractious intellectual debates of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. And, as part of the movement toward gender equality that is key to modern western progress, gender history has been caught up in the culture wars that continue to shape post-global society. What is intriguing and ultimately defining about gender history is the way that the centrality of gender, so important for revealing how identity is structured in and through regimes of power, has been unable to hold its own over the half century of the field''s own history. The practice of gender history has always run up against the forces of race, class, and sexuality that challenge the singularity of gender itself as an explanatory category of historical analysis. That powerful, unruly tension is at the heart of this Very Short Introduction.

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