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Bodies in Contact

Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History
  • Edited by: Antoinette Burton and Tony Ballantyne
  • With contributions by: Rosalind O'Hanlon and Emma Jinhua Teng
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2005
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This reader on world history emphasizes the centrality of raced , sexed, and classed bodies as sites on which imperial power was imagined and exercised, in order to examine the effects of global politics, capital and culture on everyday spaces and local c

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Tony Ballantyne is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Otago in New Zealand. He is the author of Orientalism and Race: Aryanism in the British Empire and the editor of Science, Empire, and the European Exploration of the Pacific.

Antoinette Burton is Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies, Department of History, University of Illinois. She is the author of Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India and At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late-Victorian Britain. She is the editor of After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation (also published by Duke University Press) and a coeditor of The Journal of Women’s History.

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Bodies in Contact is an excellent work, full of lively essays based on an engaging variety of historical perspectives. Instructors in world history rightly complain that there is little available to students that covers gender. This volume helps fill that gap with articles on important issues in the history of contact and empire.”—Bonnie G. Smith, author of The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice


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I. Thresholds of Modernity: Mapping Genders

Rosalind O’Hanlon
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Emma Jinhua Teng
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Jennifer L. Morgan
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Rebecca Overmyer-Velázquez
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Julia C. Wells
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Sean Quinlan
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II. Global Empires, Local Encounters

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Adele Perry
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Lucy Eldersveld Murphy
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III. The Mobility of Politics and the Politics of Mobility

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Siobhan Lambert Hurley
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Joseph S. Alter
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