Haunted by Empire

Ann-Laura Stoler

Description

A milestone in U.S. historiography, Haunted by Empire brings postcolonial critiques to bear on North American history and draws on that history to question the analytic conventions of postcolonial studies. The contributors to this innovative collection examine the critical role of "domains of the intimate" in the consolidation of colonial power. They demonstrate how the categories of difference underlying colonialism-the distinctions advanced as the justification for the colonizer's rule of the colonized-were enacted and reinforced in intimate realms from the bedroom to the classroom to the medical examining room. Together the essays focus attention on the politics of comparison-on how colonizers differentiated one group or set of behaviors from another-and on the circulation of knowledge and ideologies within and between imperial projects. Ultimately, this collection forces a rethinking of what historians choose to compare and of the epistemological grounds on which those choices are based.Haunted by Empire includes Ann Laura Stoler's seminal essay "Tense and Tender Ties" as well as her bold introduction, which carves out the exciting new analytic and methodological ground animated by this comparative venture. The contributors engage in a lively cross-disciplinary conversation, drawing on history, anthropology, literature, philosophy, and public health. They address such topics as the regulation of Hindu marriages and gay sexuality in the early-twentieth-century United States; the framing of multiple-choice intelligence tests; the deeply entangled histories of Asian, African, and native peoples in the Americas; the racial categorizations used in the 1890 U.S. census; and the politics of race and space in French colonial New Orleans. Linda Gordon, Catherine Hall, and Nancy F. Cott each provide a concluding essay reflecting on the innovations and implications of the arguments advanced in Haunted by Empire.Contributors. Warwick Anderson, Laura Briggs, Kathleen Brown, Nancy F. Cott, Shannon Lee Dawdy, Linda Gordon, Catherine Hall, Martha Hodes, Paul A. Kramer, Lisa Lowe, Tiya Miles, Gwenn A. Miller, Emily S. Rosenberg, Damon Salesa, Nayan Shah, Alexandra Minna Stern, Ann Laura Stoler, Laura Wexler

Sujets

• États-Unis
• History of the Americas
• USA
• Histoire

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 05 mai 2006
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822387992
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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American Encounters/Global

Interactions

a series edited by gilbert m. joseph

and emily s. rosenberg

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GEOGRAPHIES OF INTIMACY

IN NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY

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D U K E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S

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‘‘Tense and Tender Ties: The Politics of Comparison in North American History and (Post) Colonial Studies’’ originally appeared in theJournal of American History (December ): –. Copyright © Organization of American Historians. Reprinted with permission.

American Encounters/Global Interactions a series edited by gilbert m. joseph and emily s. rosenberg

This series aims to stimulate critical perspectives and fresh interpretive frameworks for scholarship on the history of the imposing global presence of the United States. Its primary concerns include the deployment and contestation of power, the construction and deconstruction of cultural and political borders, the fluid meanings of intercultural encounters, and the complex interplay between the global and the local. American Encounters seeks to strengthen dialogue and collaboration between historians of U.S. international relations and area studies specialists.

The series encourages scholarship based on multiarchival historical research. At the same time, it supports a recognition of the representational character of all stories about the past and promotes critical inquiry into issues of subjectivity and narrative. In the process, American Encounters strives to understand the context in which meanings related to nations, cultures, and political economy are continually produced, challenged, and reshaped.

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.   Intimidations of Empire: Predicaments of the Tactile and Unseen

.   Tense and Tender Ties: The Politics of Comparison in North American History and (Post) Colonial Studies

Convergence and Comparison

.  Samoa’s Half-Castes and Some Frontiers of Comparison

.  States of Hygiene: Race ‘‘Improvement’’ and Biomedical Citizenship in Australia and the Colonial Philippines

.  Adjudicating Intimacies on U.S. Frontiers

.   Proper Caresses and Prudent Distance: A How-To Manual from Colonial Louisiana

.  ‘‘His Kingdom for a Kiss’’: Indians and Intimacy in the Narrative of John Marrant

Proximities of Power

.  The Intimacies of Four Continents

.  Body Work in the Antebellum United States

.  Fractions and Fictions in the United States Census of 

.  The Fair Ensemble: Kate Chopin in St. Louis in 

. .  ‘‘The Perfect Mistress of Russian Economy’’: Sighting the Intimate on a Colonial Alaskan Terrain, –

Circuits of Knowledge Production

.   An Empire of Tests: Psychometrics and the Paradoxes of Nationalism in the Americas

.  Making ‘‘American’’ Families: Transnational Adoption and U.S. Latin America Policy

. .  The Darkness That Enters the Home: The Politics of Prostitution during the Philippine- American War

. .  Ordering Others: U.S. Financial Advisers in the Early Twentieth Century

Refractions

.  Internal Colonialism and Gender

.  Commentary

. .  Afterword

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