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The Trouble with Empire

Challenges to Modern British Imperialism

By: Antoinette Burton,Antoinette M. Burton

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The Trouble with Empire

Challenges to Modern British Imperialism

By: Antoinette Burton,Antoinette M. Burton

The Trouble with Empire contends that dissent and disruption were constant features of imperial experience and that they should, therefore, drive narratives of the modern British imperial past. Moving across the one hundred years between the first Anglo-Afghan war and Gandhi's salt marches, the book tracks commonalities between different forms of resistance in order to understand how regimes of imperial security worked in practice. This emphasis on protest and struggle is intended not only to reveal indigenous agency but to illuminate the limits of imperial power, official and unofficial, as well. "Pax Britannica"-the conviction that peace was the dominant feature of modern British imperialism-remains the working presumption of most empire histories in the twenty-first century. The Trouble with Empire, in contrast, originates from skepticism about the ability of hegemons to rule unchallenged and about the capacity of imperial rule to finally and fully subdue those who contested it. The book follows various forms of dissent and disruption, both large and small, in three domains: the theater of war, the arena of market relations, and the realm of political order. Tracking how empire did and did not work via those who struggled against it recasts ways of measuring not simply imperial success or failure, but its very viability across the uneven terrain of daily power. The Trouble with Empire argues that empires are never finally or fully accomplished but are always in motion, subject to pressures from below as well as above. In an age of spectacular insurgency and counterinsurgency across many of the former possessions of Britain's global empire, such a genealogy of the forces that troubled imperial hegemony are needed now more than ever.

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Oxford University Press

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0190858559

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9780190858551

The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau

By: Antoinette M. Burton

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The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau

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Antoinette Burton uses a mid-twentieth-century Indian-American authors career to analyze broader issues of postwar Americas understanding of itself and the wider world.

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236

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Duke University Press

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0822340712

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9780822340713

Dwelling in the Archive

Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India

By: Antoinette M. Burton

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Dwelling in the Archive

Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India

By: Antoinette M. Burton

Through an analysis of the writings of three 20th century Indian women, this book explores how the memoirs, fictions, and histories written by women can be read as counter-narratives of colonial modernity.

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220

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195144252

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9780195144253

Empire in Question

Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism

By: Antoinette Burton

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Empire in Question

Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism

By: Antoinette Burton

Essays written by Antoinette Burton since the mid-1990s trace her thinking about modern British history and engage debates about how to think about British imperialism in light of contemporary events.

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417

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Duke University Press

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0822349027

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9780822349020

Burdens of History

British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915

By: Antoinette M. Burton

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Burdens of History

British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915

By: Antoinette M. Burton

In this study of British middle-class feminism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Antoinette Burton explores an important but neglected historical dimension of the relationship between feminism and imperialism. Demonstrating how feminis

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807844713

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9780807844717

Burdens of History

British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915

By: Antoinette M. Burton

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British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915

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The Trouble with Empire

Challenges to Modern British Imperialism

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Challenges to Modern British Imperialism

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At the Heart of the Empire

Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late-Victorian Britain

By: Antoinette M. Burton

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At the Heart of the Empire

Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late-Victorian Britain

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Antoinette Burton focuses on the experiences of three Victorian travelers in Britain to illustrate how "Englishness" was made and remade in relation to imperialism. The accounts left by these three sojourners--all prominent, educated Indians--represent complex, critical ethnographies of "native" metropolitan society and offer revealing glimpses of what it was like to be a colonial subject in fin-de-siècle Britain. Burton's innovative interpretation of the travelers' testimonies shatters the myth of Britain's insularity from its own construction of empire and shows that it was instead a terrain open to continual contest and refiguration. Burton's three subjects felt the influence of imperial power keenly during even the most everyday encounters in Britain. Pandita Ramabai arrived in London in 1883 seeking a medical education and left in 1886, having resisted the Anglican Church's attempts to make her an evangelical missionary. Cornelia Sorabji went to Oxford to study law and became the first Indian woman to be called to the Bar. Behramji Malabari sought help for his Indian reform projects in England, and subjected London to colonial scrutiny in the process. Their experiences form the basis of this wide-ranging, clearly written, and imaginative investigation of diasporic movement in the colonial metropolis.

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University of California Presson Demand

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0520209583

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9780520209589

Dwelling in the Archive

Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India

By: Antoinette M. Burton

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Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India

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Book's by Antoinette M. Burton

The Trouble with Empire

The Trouble with Empire

The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau

The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau

Dwelling in the Archive

Dwelling in the Archive

Empire in Question

Empire in Question

Burdens of History

Burdens of History

Burdens of History

Burdens of History

The Trouble with Empire

The Trouble with Empire

At the Heart of the Empire

At the Heart of the Empire

Dwelling in the Archive

Dwelling in the Archive

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