Autor: Burton Antoinette Burton

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 …

Combining insights from imperial studies and transnational book history, this provocative collection opens new vistas on both fields through ten accessible essays, each devoted to a single book. Cont …

Designed for classroom use, The First Anglo-Afghan Wars gathers in one volume primary source materials related to the first two wars that Great Britain launched against native leaders of the Afghan r …

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 …

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 str …

From portrayals of African women’s bodies in early modern European travel accounts to the relation between celibacy and Indian nationalism to the fate of the Korean "comfort women" forced i …

An interdisciplinary collection of essays designed to map out a wide-ranging and productive future for postcolonial studies, this volume assesses the current state of the field and points toward its …

Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with them-about the effect that the researcher’s race, gender, or class may have …

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 w …

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, t …

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 worl …

Few historical subjects have generated such intense and sustained interest in recent decades as Britain”s imperial past. What accounts for this preoccupation? Why has it gained such purchase on the …

Few historical subjects have generated such intense and sustained interest in recent decades as Britain”s imperial past. What accounts for this preoccupation? Why has it gained such purchase on the …

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 dem …

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 dem …

From yaks and vultures to whales and platypuses, animals have played central roles in the history of British imperial control. The contributors to Animalia analyze twenty-six animals-domestic, feral, …

An Illinois Sampler presents personal accounts from faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and other contributors about their research and how it enriches and energizes the …

History has traditionally privileged elites and their accomplishments. World Histories from Below provides an antidote, placing ”ordinary” people and subordinated subjects at the heart of the theme …

History has traditionally privileged elites and their accomplishments. World Histories from Below provides an antidote, placing ”ordinary” people and subordinated subjects at the heart of the theme …