Cultures of Empire: Colonizers in Britain and the Empire in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: a Reader

✍ Scribed by Catherine Hall

Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 402
Series: Studies in Imperialism
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This reader collects together articles by key historians, literary critics and anthropologists on the cultures of colonialism in the British Empire in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is divided into three sections: theoretical, emphasizing approaches; the colonisers "at home"; and "away".

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction: Thinking the postcolonial, thinking the empire, Catherine Hall

Part One: Using theory:
1. Joanna de Groot 'Sex' and 'Race': the Construction of Language and Image in the Nineteenth Century
2. Nancy Leys Stephan, 'Race, gender, science and citizenship',
3. Gyan Prakash, 'Subaltern studies as postcolonial criticism',
4. Ann Laura Stoler, 'Rethinking colonial categories: European communities and boundaries of rule',
5. Antoinette Burton, 'Who needs the Nation? Interrogating 'British' history',

Part Two: The Empire and its Others

John Barrell, 'Death on the Nile: Fantasy and the Literature of Tourism 1840-1860',
Kathleen Wilson, 'Citizenship, empire and modernity in the English provinces c. 1720-1790' i
Luke Gibbons, 'Race against Time: Racial discourse and Irish history',
Janaki Nair, 'Uncovering the Zenana: Visions of Indian womanhood in Englishwomen's writings, 1813-1940',
Sonya O' Rose. 'Sex, citizenship and the Nation in World War II Britain',
Elizabeth Vibert, 'Real men hunt buffalo: Masculinity, race and class in British fur traders' narratives'
Nicholas Thomas, 'Colonial conversions: Difference, hierarchy and history in early twentieth-century Evangelical propaganda',
Patricia Hayes, 'Cocky' Hahn and the Black Venus': The making of a native commissioner in South West Africa, 1915-46,

Part Three: Legacies of Empire

Jacqui M. Alexander, 'Not Just (Any) Body Can be A Citizen: The politics of law, sexuality and postcoloniality in Trinidad and Tabago and the Bahamas'

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