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Archive stories : facts, fictions, and the writing of history

Antoinette M. Burton (Editor)
Despite the importance of archives to the subject of history, there has been very little written about actual encounters with them. This anthology compares scholarly findings from around the world to comment on the creation, definition, and use of archival evidence in the writing of history
eBook, English, 2005
Duke University Press, Durham, N.C., 2005
1 online resource (x, 396 pages) : illustrations
9780822387046, 9781283021975, 9786613021977, 0822387042, 1283021978, 6613021970
226067791
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction: Archive Fever, Archive Stories / Antoinette Burton 1Part I. Close Encounters: The Archive as Contact Zone 25National Narratives and the Politics of Miscegenation: Britain and India / Durba Ghosh 27“Without the Past There is No Future”: Archives, History, and Authority in Uzbekistan / Jeff Sahadeo 45Mechanisms of Exclusion: Historicizing the Archive and the Passport / Craig Roberston 68Mr. Peal’s Archive: Mobility and Exchange in Histories of Empire / Tony Ballantyne 87A Living Archive of Desire: Teresita la Campesina and the Embodient of Queer Latino Community Histories / Horacio N. Roque Ramirez 111Toiling in the Archives of Cyberspace / Renee M. Sentilles 136Part II. States of Art: “Official” Archives and Counter-Histories 157“What Is an Archive?” in the History of Modern France / Jennifer S. Milligan 159The Archive and the Case of the German Nation / Peter Fritzsche 184On the Biography of the Bakunin Family Archive / John Randolph 209Creating the “Suffragette Spirit”: British Feminism and the Historical Imagination / Laura Mayhall 232Archives of the Unbuilt Environment: Documents and Discourses of Imagined Space in Twentieth-Century Kohler, Wisconsin / Kathryn J. Oberdeck 251Fiction’s Imaginative Archive and the Newspaper’s Local Scandals: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Egypt / Marilyn Booth 274Part III. Archive Matters: The Past in the Present 297In Good Hands: Researching the 1976 Soweto Uprising in the State Archives of South Africa / Helena Pohlandt-McCormick 299The Colonial Archive on Trial: Possession, Dispossession, and History in Delgamuukw v. British Columbia / Adele Perry 325The History of Killing and the Killing of History / Ann Curthoys 351Selected Bibliography 375Contributors 381Index 385
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