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Ann Laura Stoler, ed., Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History (Durham and London: Duke University Press 2006)
HAUNTED BY EMPIRE consists of 16 essays (and "Refractions" on these essays by Linda Gordon, Catherine Hall, and Nancy Cott) that take as their starting point and respond to anthropologist and historian Ann Laura Stoler's call to extend contemporary colonial studies to the history of the United States. Her essay advocating a comparative approach to European and us. Colonialism, "Tense and Tender Ties: The Politics of Comparison in North American History and (Post) Colonial Studies," is included in the collection. Stoler's comparative approach, using a broad definition of colonialism, challenges us exceptionalism and puts in question the deeply rooted notion among many Americans that the United States is not now, nor ever has been, an imperial power. As Nancy Cott explains, the idea "goes against the grain."
This may seem a curious stance to many Canadian readers, marked as we are by our historic relationship to, and geographic position between, two empires: 19th-century Britain... |
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