Haunted by empire : geographies of intimacy in North American history / edited by Ann Laura Stoler.

Other author Stoler, Ann Laura.
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 2006.
Descriptionxvii, 544 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

SeriesAmerican encounters/global interactions
American encounters/global interactions. ^A401985
Contents Intimidations of empire : predicaments of the tactile and unseen / Ann Laura Stoler -- Tense and tender ties : the politics of comparison in North American history and (post) colonial studies / Ann Laura Stoler -- Samoa's half-castes and some frontiers of comparison / Damon Salesa -- States of hygiene : race "improvement" and biomedical citizenship in Australia and the colonial Philippines / Warwick Anderson -- Adjudicating intimacies on U.S. frontiers / Nayan Shah -- Proper caresses and prudent distance : a how-to manual from colonial Louisiana / Shannon Lee Dawdy -- "His kingdom for a kiss" : Indians and intimacy in the narrative of John Marrant / Tiya Miles -- The intimacies of four continents / Lisa Lowe -- Body work in the antebellum United States / Kathleen Brown -- Fractions and fictions in the United States census of 1890 / Martha Hodes -- The fair ensemble : Kate Chopin in St. Louis in 1904 / Laura Wexler -- "The perfect mistress of Russian economy" : sighting the intimate on a colonial Alaskan terrain, 1784-1821 / Gwenn A. Miller -- An empire of tests : psychometrics and the paradoxes of nationalism in the Americas / Alexandra Minna Stern -- Making "American" families : transnational adoption and U.S. Latin America policy / Laura Briggs -- The darkness that enters the home : the gender politics of prostitution during the Philippine-American war / Paul A. Kramer -- Ordering others : U.S. financial advisers in the early twentieth century / Emily S. Rosenberg -- Internal colonialism and gender / Linda Gordon -- Commentary / Catherine Hall -- Afterword / Nancy F. Cott.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [473]-530) and index.
LCCN 2005031722
ISBN0822337371 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN082233724X (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780822337249

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