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Bodies in Contact
Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History
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Edited by:
Antoinette Burton
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With contributions by:
Rosalind O'Hanlon
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English
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2005
About this book
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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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Bodies, Empires, and World Histories
1 - I. Thresholds of Modernity: Mapping Genders
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Masculinity and the Bangash Nawabs of Farrukhabad
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An Island of Women: Gender in Qing Travel Writing about Taiwan
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Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology, 1500–1770
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Christian Morality in New Spain: The Nahua Woman in the Franciscan Imaginary
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Eva’s Men: Gender and Power at the Cape of Good Hope
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Colonial Bodies, Hygiene, and Abolitionist Politics in Eighteenth-Century France
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Women, Property, and Power in Eighteenth-Century Cairo
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Reproducing Colonialism in British Columbia, 1849–1871
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Native American and Métis Women as ‘‘Public Mothers’’ in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest
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Britishness, Clubbability, and the Colonial Public Sphere
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Muscular Catholicism: Nationalism, Masculinity, and Gaelic Team Sports, 1884–1916
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Reproducing the ‘‘French Race’’: Immigration and Pronatalism in Early-Twentieth-Century France
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Race Hysteria, Darwin 1938
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Tattooed Secrets: Women’s History in Magude District, Southern Mozambique
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An Ottoman Occidentalist in Europe: Ahmed Midhat Meets Madame Gülnar, 1889
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Out of India: The Journeys of the Begam of Bhopal, 1901–1930
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Celibacy, Sexuality, and Nationalism in North India
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Women’s Liberation and Islam in Soviet Uzbekistan, 1926–1941
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Gender, Power, and U.S. Imperialism: The Occupation of Japan, 1945–1952
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History and Memory: The ‘‘Comfort Women’’ Controversy
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‘‘One Black Allah’’: The Middle East in the Cultural Politics of African American Liberation, 1955–1970
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Postscript: Bodies, Genders, Empires: Reimagining World Histories
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Index
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