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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stoler, Ann Laura (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.