Moving Subjects: Gender, Mobility, and Intimacy in an Age of Global Empire

by Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton, Adrian Carton

Overview

Moving Subjects is the first of its kind to make a case not simply for the necessity of a spatial analysis of imperial formations, but for the indispensability of an investigative approach that links space and movement with the domain of the intimate. Through careful archival research and a commitment to excavating the variety of "mobile intimacies" at the heart of imperial power, its agents, and its interlocutors, contributors offer new evidence and approaches for scholars engaged in capturing the historical nuances of imperial domination.

Contributors are Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton, Adrian Carton, David Haines, Katherine Ellinghaus, Charlotte Macdonald, Michael A. McDonnell, Kirsten McKenzie, Michelle Moran, Fiona Paisley, Adele Perry, Dana Rabin, Christine M. Skwiot, Rachel Standfield, Frances Steel, Elizabeth Vibert, and Kerry Wynn.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780252075681
Publisher:	University of Illinois Press
Publication date:	11/11/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Tony Ballantyne is an associate professor of history and international studies at Washington University, St Louis, and the author of Between Colonialism and Diaspora: Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World.

Antoinette Burton holds the Bastian Chair in Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is the author of The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments   ix
Note on Orthography   xi

Introduction: The Politics of Intimacy in an Age of Empire   1
TONY BALLANTYNE AND ANTOINETTE BURTON

Part 1. Vantage Points: Moving Across Imperial Spaces
1. Violence and the Intimacy of Imperial Ethnography: The Endeavor in the Pacific   31
RACHEL STANDFIELD
2. In Search of the "Whaheen": Ngai Tahu Women, Shore Whalers, and the Meaning of Sex in Early New Zealand   49
DAVID HAINES
3. Writing "Home": Sibling Intimacy and Mobility in a Scottish Colonial Memoir   67
ELIZABETH VIBERT
4. Intimacy of the Envelope: Fiction, Commerce, and Empire in the Correspondence of Friends Mary Taylor and Charlotte Bronte, c. 1845-55   89
CHARLOTTE MACDONALD
5. Suva under Steam: Mobile Men and a Colonial Port Capital, 1880s-1910s   110
FRANCES STEEL
6. Performing "Interracial Harmony": Settler Colonialism at the 1934 Pan-Pacific Women's Conference in Hawai'i   127
FIONA PAISLEY

Part 2. "Affective Economics": Sexuality and the Uses of Intimacy
7. "Il a Epouse une Sauvagesse": Indian and Metis Persistence across Imperial and National Borders   149
MICHAEL A. MCDONNELL
8. "Miss Indian Territory" and "Mr. Oklahoma Territory": Marriage, Settlement, and Citizenship in the Cherokee Nation and the United States   172
KERRY WYNN
9. Genealogies and Histories in Collision: Tourism and Colonial Contestations in Hawai'i, 1900-1930   190
CHRISTINE M. SKWIOT
10. Intimate Assimilation: Comparing White-Indigenous Intermarriage in the United States and Australia, 1880s-1930s   211
KATHERINE ELLINGHAUS

Part 3. Bodies on the Move: Scandals of Imperial Space
11. "Faire and Well-Formed": Portuguese Eurasian Women and Symbolic Whiteness in Early Colonial India   231
ADRIAN CARTON
12. The Sorceress, the Servant, and the Stays: Sexuality and Race in Eighteenth-Century Britain   252
DANA RABIN
13. Social Mobilities at the Cape of Good Hope: Lady Anne Barnard, Samuel Hudson, and the Opportunities of Empire, c. 1797-1824   274
KIRSTEN MCKENZIE
14. Islands of Intimacy: Community, Kinship, and Domesticity, Salt Spring Island, 1866   296
ADELE PERRY
15. Telling Tales of Ko'olau: Containing and Mobilizing Disease in Colonial Hawai'i   315
MICHELLE T. MORAN

Epilogue: The Intimate, the Translocal, and the Imperial in an Age of Mobility   335
TONY BALLANTYNE AND ANTOINETTE BURTON

Contributors   339
Index   343

Editorial Reviews

"Compelling."—The Journal of American History



"A valuable collection that contains much fascinating material and many valuable conceptual insights."—Victorian Studies

“Moving Subjects makes a significant contribution to some lively areas of historical scholarship, conceptualizing them in new ways: the history of the body, the history of sexuality, the ‘new imperial’ history, the history of settler societies, and the intersections of race, gender, and class in all of these."—Ann Curthoys, coeditor of Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective

“These essays are among the very best out there. Taking on larger understandings of empire and colonialism, the authors offer important and unique insights into how one might interrogate old subjects in new ways and, more important, how we might reconstitute those old subjects to better understand the workings of the past.”—Damon Salesa, associate professor of history, University of Michigan

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