Introduction: On the Inadequacy and the Indispensability of the Nation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: On the Inadequacy and the Indispensability of the Nation 1
5. 1. Nations, Empires, Disciplines: Thinking beyond the Boundaries
6. Rethinking British Studies: Is There Life after Empire? 27
7. Transcending the Nation: A Global Imperial History? 44
8. Empire and ‘‘the Nation’’: Institutional Practice, Pedagogy, and Nation in the Classroom 57
9. We’ve Just Started Making National Histories, and You Want Us to Stop Already? 70
10. Losing Our Way after the Imperial Turn: Charting Academic Uses of the Postcolonial 90
11. Rereading the Archive and Opening up the Nation-State: Colonial Knowledge in South Asia (and Beyond) 102
12. 2. Fortresses and Frontiers: Beyond and Within
13. Unthinking French History: Colonial Studies beyond National Identity 125
14. Notes on a History of ‘‘Imperial Turns’’ in Modern Germany 144
15. After ‘‘Spain’’: A Dialogue with Josep M. Fradera on Spanish Colonial Historiography 157
16. Making the World Safe for American History 170
17. Asian American Global Discourses and the Problem of History 186
18. Race, Nationality, Mobility: A History of the Passport 196
19. 3. Reorienting the Nation: Logics of Empire, Colony, Globe
20. Periodizing Johnson: Anticolonial Modernity as Crux and Critique 217
21. The Pudding and the Palace: Labor, Print Culture, and Imperial Britain in 1851 230
22. Double Meanings: Nation and Empire in the Edwardian Era 246
23. The Fashionable World: Imagined Communities of Dress 260
24. The Romance of White Nations: Imperialism, Popular Culture, and National Histories 279
25. Britain’s Finest: The Royal Hong Kong Police 293
26. One-Way Traffic: George Lamming and the Portable Empire 308
27. The Whiteness of Civilization: The Transatlantic Crisis of White Supremacy and British Television Programming in the United States in the 1970s 324
28. Selected Bibliography 343
29. About the Contributors 357
30. Index 361