A milestone in U.S. historiography, Haunted by Empire brings
postcolonial critiques to bear on North American history and draws
on that history to question the analytic conventions of
postcolonial studies. The contributors to this innovative
collection examine the critical role of "domains of the intimate"
in the consolidation of colonial power. They demonstrate how the
categories of difference underlying colonialism-the distinctions
advanced as the justification for the colonizer's rule of the
colonized-were enacted and reinforced in intimate realms from the
bedroom to the classroom to the medical examining room. Together
the essays focus attention on the politics of comparison-on how
colonizers differentiated one group or set of behaviors from
another-and on the circulation of knowledge and ideologies within
and between imperial projects. Ultimately, this collection forces a
rethinking of what historians choose to compare and of the
epistemological grounds on which those choices are based.Haunted by
Empire includes Ann Laura Stoler's seminal essay "Tense and Tender
Ties" as well as her bold introduction, which carves out the
exciting new analytic and methodological ground animated by this
comparative venture. The contributors engage in a lively
cross-disciplinary conversation, drawing on history, anthropology,
literature, philosophy, and public health. They address such topics
as the regulation of Hindu marriages and gay sexuality in the
early-twentieth-century United States; the framing of
multiple-choice intelligence tests; the deeply entangled histories
of Asian, African, and native peoples in the Americas; the racial
categorizations used in the 1890 U.S. census; and the politics of
race and space in French colonial New Orleans. Linda Gordon,
Catherine Hall, and Nancy F. Cott each provide a concluding essay
reflecting on the innovations and implications of the arguments
advanced in Haunted by Empire. Contributors. Warwick Anderson,
Laura Briggs, Kathleen Brown, Nancy F. Cott, Shannon Lee Dawdy,
Linda Gordon, Catherine Hall, Martha Hodes, Paul A. Kramer, Lisa
Lowe, Tiya Miles, Gwenn A. Miller, Emily S. Rosenberg, Damon
Salesa, Nayan Shah, Alexandra Minna Stern, Ann Laura Stoler, Laura
Wexler
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