Sources and methods in histories of colonialism : approaching the imperial archive
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Sources and methods in histories of colonialism : approaching the imperial archive
（Routledge guides to using historical sources）
Routledge, 2017
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction / Kirsty Reid and Fiona Paisley
- Democratising the photographic archive / Jane Lydon
- Archival detours: sourcing colonial history / Penny Edwards
- Decolonizing the archives: a transnational perspective / Victoria Haskins
- Archiving Algeria: power, violence and secrecy / Abdelmajid Hannoum
- Colonial knowledge and subaltern voices: the case of an official enquiry in mid-nineteenth-century Java / G. Roger Knight
- Making people countable: analyzing paper trails and the imperial census / Alexandra Widmer
- Institutional case files: insanity's archive / Catharine Coleborne
- Gender, geopolitics and gaps in the records: women glimpsed in the military archives / Vera Mackie
- Entanglement of oral sources and colonial records / Maria Nugent
- Living empire / Fiona Paisley
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Sources and Methods in Histories of Colonialism provides an in-depth study of the relationships between archives, knowledge and power. Exploring a diverse range of examples and surveying the now substantial scholarly literatures on the functions and scope of the 'imperial archive', it facilitates a deeper understanding of the challenges of working with a range of specific source genres within imperial and colonial archives.
Covering the late eighteenth century to the present day and drawing on material from a range of modern empires including those established by Britain, France, the Netherlands, Spain and the United States, chapters discuss themes such as the emergence of photography as an archival tool, the use of oral history in histories of colonialism and the ways in which the state informs the archive and vice versa. This book considers the ways in which newer ways of thinking about the past have challenged more traditional views of 'the archive', provoking questions about what archives are and where their conceptual, geographical and chronological boundaries lie.
Examining a wide selection of source material including government papers, censuses, petitions and case files and providing both an overarching introduction to the subject and close analysis of specific case studies, this book will be essential reading for students of imperial and colonial history.
Table of Contents
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List of contributors
Introduction
Kirsty Reid and Fiona Paisley
PART I
1 - Democratising the photographic archive
Jane Lydon
2 - Archival detours: sourcing colonial history
Penny Edwards
3 - Decolonizing the archives: a transnational perspective
Victoria Haskins
PART II
4 - Archiving Algeria: power, violence and secrecy
Abdelmajid Hannoum
5 - Colonial knowledge and subaltern voices: the case of an official enquiry in mid-nineteenth-century Java
G. Roger Knight
6 - Making people countable: analyzing paper trails and the imperial census
Alexandra Widmer
PART III
7 - Institutional case files: insanity's archive
Catharine Coleborne
8 - Gender, geopolitics and gaps in the records: women glimpsed in the military archives
Vera Mackie
9 - Entanglement of oral sources and colonial records
Maria Nugent
10 - Living empire
Fiona Paisley
Index
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