After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and Through the NationAntoinette Burton Duke University Press, 2003 M05 29 - 369 pages 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 central, adequate, or even possible as an analytical category for studying history. These twenty essays, primarily by historians, exemplify cultural approaches to histories of nationalism and imperialism even as they critically examine the implications of such approaches. While most of the contributors discuss British imperialism and its repercussions, the volume also includes, as counterpoints, essays on the history and historiography of France, Germany, Spain, and the United States. Whether looking at the history of the passport or the teaching of history from a postnational perspective, this collection explores such vexed issues as how historians might resist the seduction of national narratives, what—if anything—might replace the nation’s hegemony, and how even history-writing that interrogates the idea of the nation remains ideologically and methodologically indebted to national narratives. Placing nation-based studies in international and interdisciplinary contexts, After the Imperial Turn points toward ways of writing history and analyzing culture attentive both to the inadequacies and endurance of the nation as an organizing rubric. Contributors. Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton, Ann Curthoys, Augusto Espiritu, Karen Fang, Ian Christopher Fletcher, Robert Gregg, Terri Hasseler, Clement Hawes, Douglas M. Haynes, Kristin Hoganson, Paula Krebs, Lara Kriegel, Radhika Viyas Mongia, Susan Pennybacker, John Plotz, Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Heather Streets, Hsu-Ming Teo, Stuart Ward, Lora Wildenthal, Gary Wilder |
Contents
On the Inadequacy and the Indispensability of the Nation | 1 |
Nations Empires Disciplines Thinking beyond the Boundaries | 23 |
Is There Life after Empire? | 25 |
A Global Imperial History? | 42 |
Institutional Practice Pedagogy and Nation in the Classroom | 55 |
Weve Just Started Making National Histories and You Want Us to Stop Already? | 68 |
Charting Academic Uses of the Postcolonial | 88 |
Colonial Knowledge in South Asia and Beyond | 100 |
A History of the Passport | 190 |
Reorienting the Nation Logics of Empire Colony Globe | 205 |
Anticolonial Modernity as Crux and Critique | 207 |
Labor Print Culture and Imperial Britain in 1851 | 220 |
Nation and Empire in the Edwardian Era | 236 |
Imagined Communities of Dress | 250 |
Imperialism Popular Culture and National Histories | 269 |
The Royal Hong Kong Police | 283 |
Beyond and Within | 121 |
Colonial Studies beyond National Identity | 123 |
Notes on a History of Imperial Turns in Modern Germany | 142 |
A Dialogue with Josep M Fradera on Spanish Colonial Historiography | 155 |
Making the World Safe for American History | 168 |
Asian American Global Discourses and the Problem of History | 180 |
George Lamming and the Portable Empire | 298 |
The Transatlantic Crisis of White Supremacy and British Television Programming in the United States in the 1970s | 314 |
Selected Bibliography | 333 |
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