Burton After the Imperial Turn

Thinking with and through the Nation
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8439-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 380 Seiten

Essays in this collection assess "the nation" as a subject of disciplinary inquiry, considering both its enduring relevance and its inadequacy as an analytical category for studying history, literature, and culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burton, Antoinette

Weitere Mitwirkende

Pennybacker, Susan D.

Ward, Stuart

Streets, Heather

Curthoys, Ann

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments 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

Über Autor(innen)

Antoinette Burton is Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies, Department of History, University of Illinois. Among her books are Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India and At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late-Victorian Britain.