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92 produkter
World Histories from Below
Disruption and Dissent, 1750 to the Present
Av Antoinette Burton, Tony Ballantyne
Häftad, 2022
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400 kr
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History has traditionally privileged elites and their accomplishments. World Histories from Below provides an antidote, placing ‘ordinary’ people and subordinated subjects at the heart of the themes it explores. Arguing that disruption and dissent are overlooked agents of historical change, it …
Trouble with Empire
Challenges to Modern British Imperialism
E-bok, 2015
353 kr
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The Trouble with Empire contends that dissent and disruption were constant features of imperial experience and that they should, therefore, drive narratives of the modern British imperial past. Moving across the one hundred years between the first Anglo-Afghan war and Gandhi''s salt marches, the …
The Trouble with Empire
Challenges to Modern British Imperialism
Häftad, 2017
638 kr
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The Trouble with Empire contends that dissent and disruption were constant features of imperial experience and that they should, therefore, drive narratives of the modern British imperial past. Moving across the one hundred years between the first Anglo-Afghan war and Gandhi's salt marches, the …
Dwelling in the Archive
Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India
Häftad, 2003
650 kr
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Dwelling in the Archives uses the writing of three 20th century Indian women to interrogate the status of the traditional archive, reading their memoirs, fictions, and histories as counter-narratives of colonial modernity. Janaki Majumdar was the daughter of the first president of the Indian …
Dwelling in the Archive
Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India
E-bok, 2003
527 kr
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Dwelling in the Archives uses the writing of three 20th century Indian women to interrogate the status of the traditional archive, reading their memoirs, fictions, and histories as counter-narratives of colonial modernity. Janaki Majumdar was the daughter of the first president of the Indian …
Gender History
A Very Short Introduction
Häftad, 2024
113 kr
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Antoinette Burton argues that gender history is hiding in plain sight, at work everywhere we look.This volume introduces the field of gender history--its origins, development, reception, recalibrations, and frictions. It offers a set of working definitions of gender as a descriptive category and as …
The Trouble with Empire
Challenges to Modern British Imperialism
Inbunden, 2015
569 kr
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Incredibly, there is no comprehensive history dedicated to resistance in the 19th and 20th century British empire. This is not for want of attention to the enemies of imperialism. There are accounts of the nature and character of colonial discourse and of the response of discrete nationalist …
Trouble with Empire
Challenges to Modern British Imperialism
E-bok, 2015
353 kr
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The Trouble with Empire contends that dissent and disruption were constant features of imperial experience and that they should, therefore, drive narratives of the modern British imperial past. Moving across the one hundred years between the first Anglo-Afghan war and Gandhi''s salt marches, the …
Illinois Sampler
Teaching and Research on the Prairie
Av Mary-Ann Winkelmes, Antoinette Burton
Inbunden, 2014
1203 kr
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An Illinois Sampler presents personal accounts from faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and other contributors about their research and how it enriches and energizes their teaching. Contributors from the humanities, engineering, social and natural sciences, and other …
Moving Subjects
Gender, Mobility, and Intimacy in an Age of Global Empire
Av Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton
Häftad, 2008
396 kr
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Moving Subjects is the first of its kind to make a case not simply for the necessity of a spatial analysis of imperial formations, but for the indispensability of an investigative approach that links space and movement with the domain of the intimate. Through careful archival research and a …
Illinois Sampler
Teaching and Research on the Prairie
Av Mary-Ann Winkelmes, Antoinette Burton
Häftad, 2014
211 kr
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An Illinois Sampler presents personal accounts from faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and other contributors about their research and how it enriches and energizes their teaching. Contributors from the humanities, engineering, social and natural sciences, and other …
Illinois Sampler
Teaching and Research on the Prairie
Av Mary-Ann Winkelmes, Antoinette Burton
E-bok, 2014
276 kr
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An Illinois Sampler presents personal accounts from faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and other contributors about their research and how it enriches and energizes their teaching. Contributors from the humanities, engineering, social and natural sciences, and other …
Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities
Inbunden, 1999
2585 kr
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Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities considers the ways in which modernity was constructed, in all its incompleteness, through colonialism. Using a variety of archival resources and equally diverse methodologies, the authors trace modernity's unstable foundations in the slippages and ruptures …
Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities
Häftad, 2011
772 kr
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Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities considers the ways in which modernity was constructed, in all its incompleteness, through colonialism. Using a variety of archival resources and equally diverse methodologies, the authors trace modernity's unstable foundations in the slippages and ruptures …
At the Heart of the Empire
Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late-Victorian Britain
Inbunden, 1998
926 kr
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Antoinette Burton focuses on the experiences of three Victorian travelers in Britain to illustrate how 'Englishness' was made and remade in relation to imperialism. The accounts left by these three sojourners - all prominent, educated Indians - represent complex, critical ethnographies of 'native' …
At the Heart of the Empire
Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late-Victorian Britain
E-bok, 1998
1071 kr
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Antoinette Burton focuses on the experiences of three Victorian travelers in Britain to illustrate how "Englishness" was made and remade in relation to imperialism. The accounts left by these three sojourners—all prominent, educated Indians—represent complex, critical ethnographies of "native" …
Empires and the Reach of the Global
1870–1945
Av Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton
Häftad, 2014
324 kr
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Empires and the Reach of the Global brings the history of empires into sharp focus by showing how imperialism has been a shaping force not just in international politics but in the economies and cultures of today’s world. Focusing on both the strengths and limits of imperial power, Tony Ballantyne …
Burdens of History
British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915
Häftad, 1994
618 kr
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In this study of British middle-class feminism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Antoinette Burton explores an important but neglected historical dimension of the relationship between feminism and imperialism. Demonstrating how feminists in the United Kingdom appropriated …
Burdens of History
British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915
E-bok, 2000
520 kr
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In this study of British middle-class feminism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Antoinette Burton explores an important but neglected historical dimension of the relationship between feminism and imperialism. Demonstrating how feminists in the United Kingdom appropriated …
After the Imperial Turn
Thinking with and Through the Nation
Häftad, 2003
441 kr
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From a variety of historically grounded perspectives, After the Imperial Turn assesses the fate of the nation as a subject of disciplinary inquiry. In light of the turn toward scholarship focused on imperialism and postcolonialism, this provocative collection investigates whether the nation remains …
Bodies in Contact
Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History
Av Antoinette Burton, Tony Ballantyne
Häftad, 2005
454 kr
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From portrayals of African women’s bodies in early modern European travel accounts to the relation between celibacy and Indian nationalism to the fate of the Korean “comfort women” forced into prostitution by the occupying Japanese army during the Second World War, the essays collected in Bodies in …
Postcolonial Studies and Beyond
Av Ania Loomba, Suvir Kaul m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
726 kr
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An interdisciplinary collection of essays designed to map out a wide-ranging and productive future for postcolonial studies, this volume assesses the current state of the field and points toward its most promising new developments. In addressing questions about the definition and relevance of …
Archive Stories
Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History
Häftad, 2006
454 kr
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Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with them-about the effect that the researcher’s race, gender, or class may have on her experience within them or about the impact that archival surveillance, architecture, or …
Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau
Häftad, 2007
378 kr
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Santha Rama Rau was one of the best known South Asian writers in postwar America. Born into India’s elite in 1923, Rama Rau has lived in the United States since the 1940s. Although she is no longer well known, she was for several decades a popular expert on India. She provided an insider’s view of …
Empire in Question
Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism
Häftad, 2011
454 kr
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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 …
Primer for Teaching World History
Ten Design Principles
Häftad, 2011
338 kr
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A Primer for Teaching World History is a guide for college and high school teachers who are designing an introductory-level world history syllabus for the first time, for those who already teach world history and are seeking new ideas or approaches, and for those who train future teachers to …
First Anglo-Afghan Wars
A Reader
Inbunden, 2014
1620 kr
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Designed for classroom use, The First Anglo-Afghan Wars gathers in one volume primary source materials related to the first two wars that Great Britain launched against native leaders of the Afghan region. From 1839 to 1842, and again from 1878 to 1880, Britain fought to expand its empire and …
First Anglo-Afghan Wars
A Reader
Häftad, 2014
579 kr
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Designed for classroom use, The First Anglo-Afghan Wars gathers in one volume primary source materials related to the first two wars that Great Britain launched against native leaders of the Afghan region. From 1839 to 1842, and again from 1878 to 1880, Britain fought to expand its empire and …
Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire
Creating an Imperial Commons
Av Antoinette Burton, Isabel Hofmeyr
Inbunden, 2014
1809 kr
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Combining insights from imperial studies and transnational book history, this provocative collection opens new vistas on both fields through ten accessible essays, each devoted to a single book. Contributors revisit well-known works associated with the British empire, including Charlotte BrontË's …
Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire
Creating an Imperial Commons
Av Antoinette Burton, Isabel Hofmeyr
Häftad, 2014
442 kr
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Combining insights from imperial studies and transnational book history, this provocative collection opens new vistas on both fields through ten accessible essays, each devoted to a single book. Contributors revisit well-known works associated with the British empire, including Charlotte BrontË's …
