Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History

Published by Duke University Press 2005

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

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822386452

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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

Author / Editor information

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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: Bodies, Empires, and World Histories Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Thresholds of Modernity: Mapping Genders
Masculinity and the Bangash Nawabs of Farrukhabad Rosalind O’Hanlon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
An Island of Women: Gender in Qing Travel Writing about Taiwan Emma Jinhua Teng Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology, 1500–1770 Jennifer L. Morgan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
Christian Morality in New Spain: The Nahua Woman in the Franciscan Imaginary Rebecca Overmyer-Velázquez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Eva’s Men: Gender and Power at the Cape of Good Hope Julia C. Wells Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
Colonial Bodies, Hygiene, and Abolitionist Politics in Eighteenth-Century France Sean Quinlan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
II. Global Empires, Local Encounters
Women, Property, and Power in Eighteenth-Century Cairo Mary Ann Fay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Reproducing Colonialism in British Columbia, 1849–1871 Adele Perry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Native American and Métis Women as ‘‘Public Mothers’’ in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest Lucy Eldersveld Murphy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
Britishness, Clubbability, and the Colonial Public Sphere Mrinalini Sinha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Muscular Catholicism: Nationalism, Masculinity, and Gaelic Team Sports, 1884–1916 Patrick F. McDevitt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Reproducing the ‘‘French Race’’: Immigration and Pronatalism in Early-Twentieth-Century France Elisa Camiscioli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Race Hysteria, Darwin 1938 Fiona Paisley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
Tattooed Secrets: Women’s History in Magude District, Southern Mozambique Heidi Gengenbach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
III. The Mobility of Politics and the Politics of Mobility
An Ottoman Occidentalist in Europe: Ahmed Midhat Meets Madame Gülnar, 1889 Carter Vaughn Findley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Out of India: The Journeys of the Begam of Bhopal, 1901–1930 Siobhan Lambert Hurley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Celibacy, Sexuality, and Nationalism in North India Joseph S. Alter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	310
Women’s Liberation and Islam in Soviet Uzbekistan, 1926–1941 Shoshana Keller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Gender, Power, and U.S. Imperialism: The Occupation of Japan, 1945–1952 Mire Koikari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	342
History and Memory: The ‘‘Comfort Women’’ Controversy Hyun Sook Kim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
‘‘One Black Allah’’: The Middle East in the Cultural Politics of African American Liberation, 1955–1970 Melani McAlister Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383
Postscript: Bodies, Genders, Empires: Reimagining World Histories Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	425

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 464
Illustrations
- Other: 1 map

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Published: January 31, 2005
ISBN: 9780822386452