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Empire in question : reading, writing, and teaching British imperialism
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Empire in question : reading, writing, and teaching British imperialism

Antoinette M. Burton

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Rules of thumb : British history and 'imperial culture' in nineteenth-century and twentieth-century Britain
Who needs the nation? : interrogating "British" history
Thinking beyond the boundaries : empire, feminism, and the domains of history
Deja vu all over again
When was Britain? nostalgia for the nation at the end of the "American century"
Archive stories : gender in the making of imperial and colonial histories
Gender, colonialism, and feminist collaboration (with Jean Allman)
Fearful bodies into disciplined subjects: pleasure, romance, and the family drama of colonial reform in Mary Carpenter's Six months in India
Contesting the zenana: the mission to make "lady doctors for India", 1874-85.
Recapturing Jane Eyre : reflections on historicizing the colonial encounter in Victorian Britain
From child bride to "Hindoo lady" : Rukhmabai and the debate on sexual respectability in imperial Britain
Tongues untied : Lord Salisbury's "black man" and the boundaries of imperial democracy
India Inc. : nostalgia, memory, and the empire of things
New narratives of imperial politics in the nineteenth century
Coda. empire of/and the world? : the limits of British imperialism
Getting outside of the global : repositioning British imperialism in world history.

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Empire in question : reading, writing, and teaching British imperialism by Antoinette M. Burton. ISBN 9780822349020. Published by Duke University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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