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Featuring essays written by the influential historian Antoinette Burton since the mid-1990s, Empire in Question traces the development of a particular, contentious strand of modern British history, the "new imperial history," through the eyes of a scholar who helped to shape the field. In her teaching and writing, Burton has insisted that the vectors of imperial power run in multiple directions, argued that race must be incorporated into history writing, and emphasized that gender and sexuality are critical dimensions of imperial history. Empire in Question includes Burton's groundbreaking critiques of British historiography, as well as essays in which she brings theory to bear on topics from Jane Eyre to nostalgia for colonial India. Burton's autobiographical introduction describes how her early encounters with feminist and postcolonial critique led to her convictions that we must ask who counts as a subject of imperial history, and that we should maintain a healthy skepticism regarding the claims to objectivity that shape much modern history writing. In the coda, she candidly reflects on shortcomings in her own thinking and in the new imperial history, and she argues that British history must be repositioned in relation to world history. Much of Burton's writing emerged from her teaching; Empire in Question is meant to engage students and teachers in debates about how to think about British imperialism in light of contemporary events.

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Histoire

Reino Unido

United Kingdom

Great Britain

Royaume-Uni

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Publié par	Duke University Press
Date de parution	03 mai 2011
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780822393566
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Antoinette Burton

with a foreword by Mrinalini Sinha and an afterword by C. A. Bayly

Duke University Press Durham and London

∫2011 Duke University Press

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper$

Designed by Heather Hensley Typeset in Monotype Dante by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.

For G. F. B. with love

a woman seldom runs wild after an abstraction. —John Stuart Mill,The Subjection of Women(1851)

Contents

Forewordby Mrinalini Sinha

Preface

A Note on the Logic of the Volume

Acknowledgments

Introduction

part i

Imperial Optics: Empire Histories, Interpretive Methods

Home and Away: Mapping Imperial Cultures

1. Rules of Thumb: British History and ‘‘Imperial Culture’’ in Nineteenth-Century and Twentieth-Century Britain (1994)