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Tensions of empire: colonial cultures in a bourgeois world

Frederick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler c1997 © University of California Press
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  • ACLS Fellows’ Publications
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  • 9780520205406 (paper)
Subject
  • European: General & Multiperiod
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page vii)
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • Between Metropole and Colony: Rethinking a Research Agenda (Ann Laura Stoler and Frederick Cooper, page 1)
  • Part I: Framings
    • 1 Liberal Strategies of Exclusion (Uday S. Mehta, page 59)
    • 2 Imperialism and Motherhood (Anna Davin, page 87)
    • 3 Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse (Homi Bhabha, page 152)
  • Part II: Making Boundaries
    • 4 Images of Empire, Contests of Conscience: Models of Colonial Domination in South Africa (John L. Comaroff, page 163)
    • 5 Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers: European Identities and the Cultural Politics of Exclusion in Colonial Southeast Asia (Ann Laura Stoler, page 198)
    • 6 "The Conversion of Englishmen and the Conversion of the World Inseparable": Missionary Imperialism and the Language of Class in Early Industrial Britain (Susan Thorne, page 238)
    • 7 Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the German Colonial Empire (Lora Wildenthal, page 263)
  • PART III: Colonial Projects
    • 8 "Le bebe en brousse": European Women, African Birth Spacing, and Colonial Intervention in Breast Feeding in the Belgian Congo (Nancy Rose Hunt, page 287)
    • 9 Tradition in the Service of Modernity: Architecture and Urbanism in French Colonial Policy, 1900-1930 (Gwendolyn Wright, page 322)
    • 10 Educating Conformity in French Colonial Algeria (Fanny Colonna, page 346)
  • Part IV: Contesting the Categories of Rule
    • 11 The Difference-Deferral of a Colonial Modernity: Public Debates on Domesticity in British Bengal (Dipesh Chakrabarty, page 373)
    • 12 The Dialectics of Decolonization: Nationalism and Labor Movements in Postwar French Africa (Frederick Cooper, page 406)
    • 13 Cars Out of Place: Vampires, Technology, and Labor in East and Central Africa (Luise White, page 436)
  • Notes on Contributors (page 461)
  • Index (page 463)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JRAI 4.2 (Jun.1998): 368 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1359-0987%28199806%294%3A2%3C368%3ATOECCI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A
JIH 28.4 (Spring 1998): 648-649 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-1953%28199821%2928%3A4%3C648%3ATOECCI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y
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