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After the Imperial Turn : Thinking with and through the Nation /

From a variety of historically grounded perspectives, this text assesses the fate of the nation as a subject of disciplinary inquiry. The 20 essays exemplify cultural approaches to histories of nationalism and imperialism even as they critically examine the implications of such approaches.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Burton, Antoinette M., 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction: On the inadequacy and the indispensability of the nation / Antoinette Burton
  • Part I. Nations, empires, disciplines: thinking beyond the boundaries
  • Rethinking British studies : is there life after empire? / Susan Pennybacker
  • Transcending the nation: a global imperial history / Stuart Ward
  • Empire and "the nation" : institutional practice, pedagogy, and nation in the classroom / Heather Streets
  • We've just started making national histories, and you want us to stop already? / Ann Curthoys
  • Losing our way after the imperial turn : charting academic uses of the postcolonial / Terri A. Hasseler and Paula M. Krebs
  • Rereading the archive and opening up the nation-state : colonial knowledge in South Asia (and beyond) / Tony Ballantyne
  • Part II. Fortresses and frontiers : beyond and within
  • Unthinking French history : colonial studies beyond national identity / Gary Wilder
  • Notes on a history of "imperial turns" in modern Germany / Lora Wildenthal
  • After "Spain" : a dialogue with Josep M. Fradera on Spanish colonial historiography / Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
  • Making the world safe for American history / Robert Gregg
  • Asian American global discourses and the problem of history / Augusto Espiritu
  • Race, nationality, mobility : a history of the passport / Radhika Viyas Mongia
  • Part III. Periodizing Johnson : anti-colonial modernity as crux and critique / Clement Hawes
  • The pudding and the palace : labor, print cultures, and imperial Britain in 1851 / Lara Kriegel
  • Double meanings : nation and empire in the Edwardian era / Ira Christopher Fletcher
  • The fashionable world : imagined communities of dress / Kristin Hoganson
  • The romance of white nations : imperialism, popular culture, and national histories / Hsu-Ming Teo
  • Britain's finest : the Royal Hong Kong Police / Karen Fang
  • One-way traffic : George Lamming and the portable empire / John Plotz
  • The whiteness of civilization : the transatlantic crisis of white supremacy and British television programming in the United States in the 1970s / Douglas M. Haynes.