Provincializing the United States: Colonialism, Decolonization, and (Post)Colonial Governance in Transnational Perspective

by Eva Bischoff (Editor), Norbert Finzsch (Editor), Ursula Lehmkuhl (Editor)

Overview

The transnational dimensions of North American history attract ever more attention in recent years. Inspired by twenty first-century experiences of global entanglements, an increasing number of scholars set out to explore the past anew. Methods and concepts of this re-orientated U.S. history, however, are still a matter of dispute. This volume submits a theoretically reflected and empirically saturated contribution to this debate. Its contributions explore U.S. history from the margins, discussing topics as diverse as U.S. settler imperialism, technological and intellectual networks, Native American history, or African-American missionaries. They open up new, postcolonial perspectives on North American History, thereby provincializing United States.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783825363604
Publisher:	Universitatsverlag Winter
Publication date:	07/01/2014
Series:	American Studies - A Monograph Series , #248
Pages:	237
Product dimensions:	5.28(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction

Provincializing the United States: Postcolonial Perspectives on North American History Eva Bischoff Ursula Lehmkuhl 9

Part I Orientalism and the Politics of Knowledge

Medicine and Colonization in Early New England Marc Priewe 39

Negotiations of Settler Imperialism in American Popular Culture around the Turn of the Twentieth Century Sabine N. Meyer 65

Part II Hybridity: Tales of Ambivalences and Disruptions

"… the seeds of their extinction, already sown, must be matured:" Native-American Genocide in the Old American Northwest, 1789-1829 Hanno Scherer 91

The Transnational Biopolitics of Whiteness and Immigration Restriction in the United States, 1894-1924 Robert Julio Decker 121

Part III The Subaltern: Colonial Agency and Imperial Power Networks

Wiring the Pacific: North American Perspectives on a (De)colonial Project Simone Müller-Pohl 155

Provincializing Pan-Africanism: The African Methodist Episcopal Church and British West Africa Elisabeth Engel 181

Bibliography 205

List of Contributors 234