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Title Haunted by empire : geographies of intimacy in North American history / edited by Ann Laura Stoler
Published Durham [North Carolina] : Duke University Press, 2006
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 544 pages) : illustrations
Series American encounters/global interactions
American encounters/global interactions.
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
Summary A groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection that rethinks the connection between the intimate and United States colonial and postcolonial histories
Analysis geschiedenis
history
sociale antropologie
social anthropology
kolonies
colonies
kolonialisme
colonialism
interraciale relaties
race relations
rassen (taxonomisch)
races
etnische groepen
ethnic groups
rassendiscriminatie
racial discrimination
etniciteit
ethnicity
minderheden
minorities
zwarten
blacks
indianen
american indians
etnografie
ethnography
vs
usa
slavernij
slavery
inheemse volkeren
indigenous people
Economic, Social, and Cultural History of North America
Economische, sociale en cultuurgeschiedenis van Noord-Amerika
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-530) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Intimacy (Psychology) -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
Intimacy (Psychology) -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
Intimacy (Psychology)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- General.
Intimacy (Psychology)
Intimacy (Psychology) -- Political aspects
Kolonialismus
Intimsphäre
Postkolonialismus
Staat (politicologie)
Persoonlijke levenssfeer.
Rassenverhoudingen.
Sekseverschillen.
Kolonialisme.
Postkolonialisme.
SUBJECT United States -- Territories and possessions -- History
Subject United States
USA
Verenigde Staten.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Stoler, Ann Laura, editor.
ISBN 0822387999
9780822387992