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Informationen zum Autor Antoinette Burton, ed. Klappentext This anthology compares scholarly findings from around the world to comment on the creation, definition, and use of archival evidence in the writing of history Zusammenfassung This anthology compares scholarly findings from around the world to comment on the creation! definition! and use of archival evidence in the writing of history Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Archive Fever, Archive Stories / Antoinette Burton 1 Part I. Close Encounters: The Archive as Contact Zone 25 National Narratives and the Politics of Miscegenation: Britain and India / Durba Ghosh 27 “Without the Past There is No Future”: Archives, History, and Authority in Uzbekistan / Jeff Sahadeo 45 Mechanisms of Exclusion: Historicizing the Archive and the Passport / Craig Roberston 68 Mr. Peal’s Archive: Mobility and Exchange in Histories of Empire / Tony Ballantyne 87 A Living Archive of Desire: Teresita la Campesina and the Embodient of Queer Latino Community Histories / Horacio N. Roque Ramirez 111 Toiling in the Archives of Cyberspace / Renee M. Sentilles 136 Part II. States of Art: “Official” Archives and Counter-Histories 157 “What Is an Archive?” in the History of Modern France / Jennifer S. Milligan 159 The Archive and the Case of the German Nation / Peter Fritzsche 184 On the Biography of the Bakunin Family Archive / John Randolph 209 Creating the “Suffragette Spirit”: British Feminism and the Historical Imagination / Laura Mayhall 232 Archives of the Unbuilt Environment: Documents and Discourses of Imagined Space in Twentieth-Century Kohler, Wisconsin / Kathryn J. Oberdeck 251 Fiction’s Imaginative Archive and the Newspaper’s Local Scandals: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Egypt / Marilyn Booth 274 Part III. Archive Matters: The Past in the Present 297 In Good Hands: Researching the 1976 Soweto Uprising in the State Archives of South Africa / Helena Pohlandt-McCormick 299 The Colonial Archive on Trial: Possession, Dispossession, and History in Delgamuukw v. British Columbia / Adele Perry 325 The History of Killing and the Killing of History / Ann Curthoys 351 Selected Bibliography 375 Contributors 381 Index 385 ...
