Moving Subjects

Tony Ballantyne is an associate professor of history and international studies at Washington University, St Louis, and the author of Between Colonialism and Diaspora: Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World.Antoinette Burton holds the Bastian Chair in Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is the author of The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau.

"Compelling."--The Journal of American History "A valuable collection that contains much fascinating material and many valuable conceptual insights."--Victorian Studies “Moving Subjects makes a significant contribution to some lively areas of historical scholarship, conceptualizing them in new ways: the history of the body, the history of sexuality, the ‘new imperial’ history, the history of settler societies, and the intersections of race, gender, and class in all of these."--Ann Curthoys, coeditor of Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective “These essays are among the very best out there. Taking on larger understandings of empire and colonialism, the authors offer important and unique insights into how one might interrogate old subjects in new ways and, more important, how we might reconstitute those old subjects to better understand the workings of the past.”--Damon Salesa, associate professor of history, University of Michigan

• Acknowledgments   ixNote on Orthography   xiIntroduction: The Politics of Intimacy in an Age of Empire   1 TONY BALLANTYNE AND ANTOINETTE BURTON Part 1. Vantage Points: Moving Across Imperial Spaces1. Violence and the Intimacy of Imperial Ethnography: The Endeavor in the Pacific   31 RACHEL STANDFIELD 2. In Search of the "Whaheen": Ngai Tahu Women, Shore Whalers, and the Meaning of Sex in Early New Zealand   49 DAVID HAINES 3. Writing "Home": Sibling Intimacy and Mobility in a Scottish Colonial Memoir   67 ELIZABETH VIBERT 4. Intimacy of the Envelope: Fiction, Commerce, and Empire in the Correspondence of Friends Mary Taylor and Charlotte Bronte, c. 1845-55   89 CHARLOTTE MACDONALD 5. Suva under Steam: Mobile Men and a Colonial Port Capital, 1880s-1910s   110 FRANCES STEEL 6. Performing "Interracial Harmony": Settler Colonialism at the 1934 Pan-Pacific Women's Conference in Hawai'i   127 FIONA PAISLEY Part 2. "Affective Economics": Sexuality and the Uses of Intimacy7. "Il a Epouse une Sauvagesse": Indian and Metis Persistence across Imperial and National Borders   149 MICHAEL A. MCDONNELL 8. "Miss Indian Territory" and "Mr. Oklahoma Territory": Marriage, Settlement, and Citizenship in the Cherokee Nation and the United States   172 KERRY WYNN 9. Genealogies and Histories in Collision: Tourism and Colonial Contestations in Hawai'i, 1900-1930   190 CHRISTINE M. SKWIOT 10. Intimate Assimilation: Comparing White-Indigenous Intermarriage in the United States and Australia, 1880s-1930s   211 KATHERINE ELLINGHAUS Part 3. Bodies on the Move: Scandals of Imperial Space11. "Faire and Well-Formed": Portuguese Eurasian Women and Symbolic Whiteness in Early Colonial India   231 ADRIAN CARTON 12. The Sorceress, the Servant, and the Stays: Sexuality and Race in Eighteenth-Century Britain   252 DANA RABIN 13. Social Mobilities at the Cape of Good Hope: Lady Anne Barnard, Samuel Hudson, and the Opportunities of Empire, c. 1797-1824   274 KIRSTEN MCKENZIE 14. Islands of Intimacy: Community, Kinship, and Domesticity, Salt Spring Island, 1866   296 ADELE PERRY 15. Telling Tales of Ko'olau: Containing and Mobilizing Disease in Colonial Hawai'i   315 MICHELLE T. MORAN Epilogue: The Intimate, the Translocal, and the Imperial in an Age of Mobility   335 TONY BALLANTYNE AND ANTOINETTE BURTON Contributors   339Index   343