Antoinette Burton: 8 books
Empire in Question
Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Featuring essays written by the influential historian Antoinette Burton since the mid-1990s, Empire in Question traces the development of a particular, contentious strand of modern British history, the “new imperial history,” through the eyes of a scholar who helped to shape the field. In her...
by Antoinette Burton, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2007
Santha Rama Rau was one of the best known South Asian writers in postwar America. Born into India’s elite in 1923, Rama Rau has lived in the United States since the 1940s. Although she is no longer well known, she was for several decades a popular expert on India. She provided an insider’s view...
Africa in the Indian Imagination
Race and the Politics of Postcolonial Citation
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
In Africa in the Indian Imagination Antoinette Burton reframes our understanding of the postcolonial Afro-Asian solidarity that emerged from the 1955 Bandung conference. Afro-Asian solidarity is best understood, Burton contends, by using friction as a lens to expose the racial, class, gender, sexuality,...
Burdens of History
British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In this study of British middle-class feminism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Antoinette Burton explores an important but neglected historical dimension of the relationship between feminism and imperialism. Demonstrating how feminists in the United Kingdom appropriated imperialistic...
A Primer for Teaching World History
Ten Design Principles
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
A Primer for Teaching World History is a guide for college and high school teachers who are designing an introductory-level world history syllabus for the first time, for those who already teach world history and are seeking new ideas or approaches, and for those who train future teachers to prepare...
An ABC of Queen Victoria's Empire
Or a Primer of Conquest, Dissent and Disruption
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
An ABC of Queen Victoria's Empire offers a provocative rewriting of Mrs. Ernest Ames' ABCs for Baby Patriots (1899). Whimsically illustrated for the nursery or primary school child, Ames' book demonstrates how deeply imperialism reached into popular culture during Victoria's reign.
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The Trouble with Empire
Challenges to Modern British Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
The Trouble with Empire contends that dissent and disruption were constant features of imperial experience and that they should, therefore, drive narratives of the modern British imperial past. Moving across the one hundred years between the first Anglo-Afghan war and Gandhi's salt marches, the book...
Transforming the Public Sphere
The Dutch National Exhibition of Women’s Labor in 1898
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2004
In 1898, the year Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands was inaugurated, five hundred women organized an enormous public exhibition showcasing women’s contributions to Dutch society as workers in a strikingly broad array of professions. The National Exhibition of Women’s Labor, held in The Hague,...