Haunted by Empire

Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies and Chair of the Anthropology Department at The New School for Social Research. She is the author of Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule and Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things (also published by Duke University Press), and a coeditor of Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World.

“This powerful collection of dazzling essays offers essential reading for our times. It shows us historically how the vast geopolitical movements of empire and globalization rely on intimate recesses of everyday domestic life at home and abroad. It demonstrates the urgency of understanding the long history and geographical reach of the American empire through comparative and transnational perspectives.”-Amy Kaplan, author of The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U. S. Culture “Haunted by Empire brilliantly illustrates how power plays out in the management of bodies, sentiments, and desires. Readers interested in how attention to the intimate is reconfiguring both U. S. history and postcolonial studies and illuminating the convergences between the two will treasure this rich and provocative book.”-Jacquelyn Hall, Spruill Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• Preface ixAcknowledgments xv1. Intimidations of Empire: Predicaments of the Tactile and Unseen / Ann Laura Stoler 12. Tense and Tender Ties: The Politics of Comparison in North American History and (Post) Colonial Studies / Ann Laura Stoler 23Convergence and Comparison 3. Samoa’s Half-Castes and Some Frontiers of Comparison / Damon Salesa 714. States of Hygiene: Race “Improvement” and Biomedical Citizenship in Australia and the Colonial Philippines / Warwick Anderson 945. Adjudicating Intimacies on U.S. Frontiers / Nayan Shah 1166. Proper Caresses and Prudent Distance: A How-To Manual from Colonial Louisiana / Shannon Lee Dawdy 1407. “His Kingdon for a Kiss”: Indians and Intimacy in the Narrative of John Marrant / Tiya Miles 163Proximities of Power 8. The Intimacies of Four Continents / Lisa Lowe 1919. Body Work in the Antebellum United States / Kathleen Brown 21310. Fractions and Fictions in the United States Census of 1890 / Martha Hodes 24011. The Fair Ensemble: Kate Chopin in St. Louis in 1904 / Laura Wexler 27112. “The Perfect Mistress of Russian Economy”: Sighting the Intimate on a Colonial Alaskan Terrain, 1784–1821 / Gwenn A. Miller 297Circuits of Knowledge Production 13. An Empire of Tests: Psychometrics and the Paradoxes of Nationalism in the Americas / Alexandra Minna Stern 32514. Making “American” Families: Transnational Adoption and U.S. Latin American Policy / Laura Briggs 34415. The Darkness That Enters the Home: The Politics of Prostitution during the Pilippine-American War / Paul A. Kramer 36616. Ordering Others: U.S. Financial Advisers in the Early Twentieth Century / Emily S. Rosenberg 405Refractions 17. Internal Colonialism and Gender / Linda Gordon42718. Commentary / Catherine Hall 45219. Afterword / Nancy F. Cott 469Bibliography 473Contributors 531Index 535