Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School of Social Research. She is the author of Race and the Education of Desire and coeditor of Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (UC Press).

"Comprehensive, erudite, and compelling."

• Preface to the 2010 Edition: Zones of the Intimate in Imperial FormationsAcknowledgmentsNote on Illustrations1. GENEALOGIES OF THE INTIMATE: MOVEMENTS IN COLONIAL STUDIES2. RETHINKING COLONIAL CATEGORIES: EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES AND THE BOUNDARIES OF THE RULE3. CARNAL KNOWLEDGE AND IMPERIAL POWER: GENDER AND MORALITY IN THE MAKING OF RACE4. SEXUAL AFFRONTS AND RACIAL FRONTIERS: CULTURAL COMPETENCE AND THE DANGERS OF METISSAGE5. A SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION: CHILDREN ON THE IMPERIAL DIVIDE6. A COLONIAL READING OF FOUCAULT: BOURGEOIS BODIES AND RACIAL SELVES7. MEMORY-WORK IN JAVA: A CAUTIONARY TALEEPILOGUE. CAVEATS ON COMFORT ZONES AND COMPARATIVE FRAMESNotesBibliographyIndex

Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School of Social Research. She is the author of Race and the Education of Desire and coeditor of Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (UC Press).

"Comprehensive, erudite, and compelling."

• Preface to the 2010 Edition: Zones of the Intimate in Imperial FormationsAcknowledgmentsNote on Illustrations1. GENEALOGIES OF THE INTIMATE: MOVEMENTS IN COLONIAL STUDIES2. RETHINKING COLONIAL CATEGORIES: EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES AND THE BOUNDARIES OF THE RULE3. CARNAL KNOWLEDGE AND IMPERIAL POWER: GENDER AND MORALITY IN THE MAKING OF RACE4. SEXUAL AFFRONTS AND RACIAL FRONTIERS: CULTURAL COMPETENCE AND THE DANGERS OF METISSAGE5. A SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION: CHILDREN ON THE IMPERIAL DIVIDE6. A COLONIAL READING OF FOUCAULT: BOURGEOIS BODIES AND RACIAL SELVES7. MEMORY-WORK IN JAVA: A CAUTIONARY TALEEPILOGUE. CAVEATS ON COMFORT ZONES AND COMPARATIVE FRAMESNotesBibliographyIndex

Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School of Social Research. She is the author of Race and the Education of Desire and coeditor of Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (UC Press).

"Comprehensive, erudite, and compelling."

• Preface to the 2010 Edition: Zones of the Intimate in Imperial FormationsAcknowledgmentsNote on Illustrations1. GENEALOGIES OF THE INTIMATE: MOVEMENTS IN COLONIAL STUDIES2. RETHINKING COLONIAL CATEGORIES: EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES AND THE BOUNDARIES OF THE RULE3. CARNAL KNOWLEDGE AND IMPERIAL POWER: GENDER AND MORALITY IN THE MAKING OF RACE4. SEXUAL AFFRONTS AND RACIAL FRONTIERS: CULTURAL COMPETENCE AND THE DANGERS OF METISSAGE5. A SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION: CHILDREN ON THE IMPERIAL DIVIDE6. A COLONIAL READING OF FOUCAULT: BOURGEOIS BODIES AND RACIAL SELVES7. MEMORY-WORK IN JAVA: A CAUTIONARY TALEEPILOGUE. CAVEATS ON COMFORT ZONES AND COMPARATIVE FRAMESNotesBibliographyIndex