From a variety of historically grounded perspectives, After the
Imperial Turn assesses the fate of the nation as a subject of
disciplinary inquiry. In light of the turn toward scholarship
focused on imperialism and postcolonialism, this provocative
collection investigates whether the nation remains central,
adequate, or even possible as an analytical category for studying
history. These twenty essays, primarily by historians, exemplify
cultural approaches to histories of nationalism and imperialism
even as they critically examine the implications of such
approaches. While most of the contributors discuss British
imperialism and its repercussions, the volume also includes, as
counterpoints, essays on the history and historiography of France,
Germany, Spain, and the United States. Whether looking at the
history of the passport or the teaching of history from a
postnational perspective, this collection explores such vexed
issues as how historians might resist the seduction of national
narratives, what-if anything-might replace the nation's hegemony,
and how even history-writing that interrogates the idea of the
nation remains ideologically and methodologically indebted to
national narratives. Placing nation-based studies in international
and interdisciplinary contexts, After the Imperial Turn points
toward ways of writing history and analyzing culture attentive both
to the inadequacies and endurance of the nation as an organizing
rubric. Contributors. Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton, Ann
Curthoys, Augusto Espiritu, Karen Fang, Ian Christopher Fletcher,
Robert Gregg, Terri Hasseler, Clement Hawes, Douglas M. Haynes,
Kristin Hoganson, Paula Krebs, Lara Kriegel, Radhika Viyas Mongia,
Susan Pennybacker, John Plotz, Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Heather
Streets, Hsu-Ming Teo, Stuart Ward, Lora Wildenthal, Gary Wilder
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