Stoler / Joseph / Rosenberg Haunted by Empire

Geographies of Intimacy in North American History
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8799-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 568 Seiten

Reihe: American encounters/global interactions

A groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection that rethinks the connection between the intimate and United States colonial and postcolonial histories.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stoler, Ann Laura

Joseph, Gilbert M.

Rosenberg, Emily S.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Salesa, Damon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xv

1. Intimidations of Empire: Predicaments of the Tactile and Unseen / Ann Laura Stoler 1

2. Tense and Tender Ties: The Politics of Comparison in North American History and (Post) Colonial Studies / Ann Laura Stoler 23

Convergence and Comparison

3. Samoa’s Half-Castes and Some Frontiers of Comparison / Damon Salesa 71

4. States of Hygiene: Race “Improvement” and Biomedical Citizenship in Australia and the Colonial Philippines / Warwick Anderson 94

5. Adjudicating Intimacies on U.S. Frontiers / Nayan Shah 116

6. Proper Caresses and Prudent Distance: A How-To Manual from Colonial Louisiana / Shannon Lee Dawdy 140

7. “His Kingdon for a Kiss”: Indians and Intimacy in the Narrative of John Marrant / Tiya Miles 163

Proximities of Power

8. The Intimacies of Four Continents / Lisa Lowe 191

9. Body Work in the Antebellum United States / Kathleen Brown 213

10. Fractions and Fictions in the United States Census of 1890 / Martha Hodes 240

11. The Fair Ensemble: Kate Chopin in St. Louis in 1904 / Laura Wexler 271

12. “The Perfect Mistress of Russian Economy”: Sighting the Intimate on a Colonial Alaskan Terrain, 1784–1821 / Gwenn A. Miller 297

Circuits of Knowledge Production

13. An Empire of Tests: Psychometrics and the Paradoxes of Nationalism in the Americas / Alexandra Minna Stern 325

14. Making “American” Families: Transnational Adoption and U.S. Latin American Policy / Laura Briggs 344

15. The Darkness That Enters the Home: The Politics of Prostitution during the Pilippine-American War / Paul A. Kramer 366

16. Ordering Others: U.S. Financial Advisers in the Early Twentieth Century / Emily S. Rosenberg 405

Refractions

17. Internal Colonialism and Gender / Linda Gordon
427

18. Commentary / Catherine Hall 452

19. Afterword / Nancy F. Cott 469

Bibliography 473

Contributors 531

Index 535

Über Autor(innen)

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.