Introduction: Intimate interdependencies : colonization, capitalism, and impositions of public and private / by Minette Church -- Affect and the memorialization of the transatlantic slave trade : spontaneous expressions of synchronic global black consciousness in the visitors' books at Elmina and Cape Coast Castles-Dungeons, Ghana / by Jean Muteba Rahier -- Behind closed doors : rethinking public and private in the Ulster Plantation / by Audrey Horning -- "Bible, bath and broom :" constructing race womanhood in The Chicago defender / by Anna S. Agbe-Davies -- The warmth of the hearth : Andean domestic life among colonial textile mill workers / by Rachel Corr -- Friends of the family : gender, kinship, and elite colonial networks in early 20th century North India / by Jacqueline H. Fewkes -- Gendering cosmopolitanism : intersectional visibility in Taiwan's colonial public spheres / by Melissa J. Brown -- Public, private, and the politics of information in late colonial Gambia / by Niklas Hultin -- Conclusion: Reading the intimate past / by Jacqueline H. Fewkes and Rachel Corr.
Summary:
"Private Lives, Public Histories explores conceptions of public and private spaces, activities, discourse, and social interactions. Contributors to this edited collection draw on ethnohistorical and material sources to depict history as a lived experience"-- Provided by publisher.
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