Empire in question : reading, writing, and teaching British imperialism / Antoinette Burton ; with a foreword by Mrinalini Sinha ; and an afterword by C. A. Bayly.
Rules of thumb : British history and 'imperial culture' in nineteenth-century and twentieth-century Britain -- Who needs the nation? : interrogating "British" history -- Thinking beyond the boundaries : empire, feminism, and the domains of history -- Deja vu all over again -- When was Britain? nostalgia for the nation at the end of the "American century" -- Archive stories : gender in the making of imperial and colonial histories -- Gender, colonialism, and feminist collaboration (with Jean Allman) -- Fearful bodies into disciplined subjects: pleasure, romance, and the family drama of colonial reform in Mary Carpenter's Six months in India -- Contesting the zenana: the mission to make "lady doctors for India", 1874-85. -- Recapturing Jane Eyre : reflections on historicizing the colonial encounter in Victorian Britain -- From child bride to "Hindoo lady" : Rukhmabai and the debate on sexual respectability in imperial Britain -- Tongues untied : Lord Salisbury's "black man" and the boundaries of imperial democracy -- India Inc. : nostalgia, memory, and the empire of things -- New narratives of imperial politics in the nineteenth century -- Coda. empire of/and the world? : the limits of British imperialism -- Getting outside of the global : repositioning British imperialism in world history.
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