Along the Archival Grain : Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense /
'Along the Archival Grain' examines the nature of colonial governance as seen through its archival habits and conventions, and in doing so offers a series of nuanced meditations on the nature of archives and the spirit with which students of empire should approach them.
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
2009.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Colonial archives and their affective states. Habit of a colonial heart ; Developing historical negatives ; Commissions and their storied edges
- Watermarks in colonial history. Hierarchies of credibility ; Imperial dispositions of disregard.