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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.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Stoler, Ann Laura (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2009.
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.