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245		0	_aHaunted By Empire _b: Geographies of Intimacy In North American History _c/ Editor: Ann Laura Stoler
260			_bDuke University Press; _c2006
300			_a545p; _c24x15cm
520			_aA milestone in U.S. historiography, Haunted by Empire brings postcolonial critiques to bear on North American history and draws on that history to question the analytic conventions of postcolonial studies. The contributors to this innovative collection examine the critical role of “domains of the intimate” in the consolidation of colonial power. They demonstrate how the categories of difference underlying colonialism—the distinctions advanced as the justification for the colonizer’s rule of the colonized—were enacted and reinforced in intimate realms from the bedroom to the classroom to the medical examining room. Together the essays focus attention on the politics of comparison—on how colonizers differentiated one group or set of behaviors from another—and on the circulation of knowledge and ideologies within and between imperial projects. Ultimately, this collection forces a rethinking of what historians choose to compare and of the epistemological grounds on which those choices are based. Haunted by Empire includes Ann Laura Stoler’s seminal essay “Tense and Tender Ties” as well as her bold introduction, which carves out the exciting new analytic and methodological ground animated by this comparative venture. The contributors engage in a lively cross-disciplinary conversation, drawing on history, anthropology, literature, philosophy, and public health. They address such topics as the regulation of Hindu marriages and gay sexuality in the early-twentieth-century United States; the framing of multiple-choice intelligence tests; the deeply entangled histories of Asian, African, and native peoples in the Americas; the racial categorizations used in the 1890 U.S. census; and the politics of race and space in French colonial New Orleans. Linda Gordon, Catherine Hall, and Nancy F. Cott each provide a concluding essay reflecting on the innovations and implications of the arguments advanced in Haunted by Empire. Contributors. Warwick Anderson, Laura Briggs, Kathleen Brown, Nancy F. Cott, Shannon Lee Dawdy, Linda Gordon, Catherine Hall, Martha Hodes, Paul A. Kramer, Lisa Lowe, Tiya Miles, Gwenn A. Miller, Emily S. Rosenberg, Damon Salesa, Nayan Shah, Alexandra Minna Stern, Ann Laura Stoler, Laura Wexler
546			_aEnglish
650			_aF1-975 United States local history _91962
651			_aUSA _91368
700			_aAnderson, Warwick _91963
700			_aBriggs, Laura _91964
700			_aBrown, Kathleen _91965
700			_aCott, Nancy F. _91966
700			_aDawdy, Shannon Lee _91967
700			_aGordon, Linda _91968
700			_aHall, Catherine _91969
700			_aHodes, Martha _91970
700			_aKramer, Paul A. _91971
700			_aLisa Lowe _91972
700			_aTiya Miles _91973
700			_aGwenn A. Miller, _91974
700			_aEmily S. Rosenberg, _91975
700			_aDamon Salesa, _91976
700			_aNayan Shah, _91977
700			_aAlexandra Minna Stern, _91978
700			_aAnn Laura Stoler, _91979
700			_aWexler, Laura _91980
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