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