Cultures of Empire

A Reader : Colonisers in Britain and the Empire in Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

By: Catherine Hall (Editor), Meg Davies

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Paperback | 27 July 2000

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With the work of Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, and others, the field of postcolonial studies has grown enormously in the past two decades, as the cultural impact of colonialism on both the colonizers and the colonized has become the object of intense scrutiny. Cultures of Empire collects the most sensitive and up-to-date examples of this scholarship in an important new volume.A substantial introduction by historian Catherine Hall synthesizes the new literature on cultures of imperialism and establishes a context for the essays that follow. The individual case studies take up a wide array of topics, from notions of masculinity among Canadian fur trappers, to the linkages between law and sexuality in Trinidad, to nineteenth-century Egyptian travel literature. Taken as a whole, these essays provide a fresh look at the historical relationships between race, gender, and power. Theoretically sophisticated and historically rigorous, Cultures of Empire will be indispensable to students of the colonial experience.

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History European History British & Irish History Politics & Government General & World History Society & Culture Cultural Studies Specific Events & Topics in History Colonialism & Imperialism National Liberation & Independence

Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 Modern History from 1700 to 1900

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction: thinking the postcolonial, thinking the empire	p. 1
Using Theory
'Sex' and 'race': the construction of language and image in the nineteenth century	p. 37
Race, gender, science and citizenship	p. 61
Cultivating bourgeois bodies and racial selves	p. 87
Subaltern Studies as postcolonial criticism	p. 120
Who needs the nation? Interrogating 'British' history	p. 137
The Empire and Its Others 'at Home'
Citizenship, empire, and modernity in the English provinces, c. 1720-90	p. 157
Death on the Nile: fantasy and the literature of tourism, 1840-60	p. 187
Race against time: racial discourse and Irish history	p. 207
Uncovering the zenana: visions of Indian womanhood in Englishwomen's writings, 1813-1940	p. 224
Sex, citizenship, and the nation in World War II Britain	p. 246
The Empire and Its Others 'Away'
Real men hunt buffalo: masculinity, race and class in British fur traders' narratives	p. 281
Colonial conversions: difference, hierarchy, and history in early twentieth-century evangelical propaganda	p. 298
'Cocky' Hahn and the 'Black Venus': the making of a Native Commissioner in South West Africa, 1915-46	p. 329
Legacies of Empire
Not just (any) body can be a citizen: the politics of law, sexuality and postcoloniality in Trinidad and Tobago and the Bahamas	p. 359
Index	p. 377
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