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Empire in Question : Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism /
"Featuring essays written by the influential historian Antoinette Burton since the mid-1990s, Empire in Question traces the development of a particular, contentious strand of modern British history, the "new imperial history," through the eyes of a scholar who helped to shape the fiel...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Rules of thumb : British history and 'imperial culture' in nineteenth-century and twentieth-century Britain
- Who needs the nation? : interrogating "British" history
- Thinking beyond the boundaries : empire, feminism, and the domains of history
- Deja vu all over again
- When was Britain? nostalgia for the nation at the end of the "American century"
- Archive stories : gender in the making of imperial and colonial histories
- Gender, colonialism, and feminist collaboration (with Jean Allman)
- Fearful bodies into disciplined subjects: pleasure, romance, and the family drama of colonial reform in Mary Carpenter's Six months in India
- Contesting the zenana: the mission to make "lady doctors for India", 1874-85.
- Recapturing Jane Eyre : reflections on historicizing the colonial encounter in Victorian Britain
- From child bride to "Hindoo lady" : Rukhmabai and the debate on sexual respectability in imperial Britain
- Tongues untied : Lord Salisbury's "black man" and the boundaries of imperial democracy
- India Inc. : nostalgia, memory, and the empire of things
- New narratives of imperial politics in the nineteenth century
- Coda. empire of/and the world? : the limits of British imperialism
- Getting outside of the global : repositioning British imperialism in world history.