Cultures of empire
Subtitle: colonizers in Britain and the Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : a reader
By: edited by Catherine Hall.
Contributors: Hall, Catherine.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
Subjects: Imperialism -- History -- 19th century -- Historiography; Imperialism -- History -- 20th century -- Historiography; Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century -- Historiography; Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: List of illustrations page vii; title: Acknowledgements ix; title: 1 Introduction: thinking the postcolonial, thinking the empire; title: Catherine Hall; title: PART I USING THEORY; title: 2 'Sex' and 'race': the construction of language and image in the nineteenth century Joanna de Groot 37; title: 3 Race, gender, science and citizenship Nancy Leys Stepan 61; title: 4 Cultivating bourgeois bodies and racial selves Ann Laura Stoler 87; title: 5 Subaltern Studies as postcolonial criticism Gyan Prakash 120; title: 6 Who needs the nation? Interrogating 'British' history Antoinette Burton 137; title: PART II THE EMPIRE AND ITS OTHERS 'AT HOME'; title: 7 Citizenship, empire, and modernity in the English provinces,; title: c. I720-90 Kathleen Wilson 157; title: 8 Death on the Nile: fantasy and the literature of tourism, 1840-60; title: John Barrell 187; title: 9 Race against time: racial discourse and Irish history Luke Gibbons 207; title: 10 Uncovering the zenana: visions of Indian womanhood in Englishwomen's writings, 1813-1940 Janaki Nair 224; title: 11 Sex, citizenship, and the nation in World War II Britain; title: Sonya 0. Rose 246; title: PART III THE EMPIRE AND ITS OTHERS 'AWAY'; title: 12 Real men hunt buffalo: masculinity, race and class in British fur traders' narratives Elizabeth Vibert 281; title: 13 Colonial conversions: difference, hierarchy, and history in early twentieth-century evangelical propaganda Nicholas Thomas 298; title: 14 'Cocky' Hahn and the 'Black Venus': the making of a Native Commissioner in South West Africa, I9I5-46 Patricia Hayes 329; title: PART IV LEGACIES OF EMPIRE; title: 15 Not just (any) body can be a citizen: the politics of law, sexuality and postcoloniality in Trinidad and Tobago and the Bahamas; title: M. Jacqui Alexander 359 Index 377.