Katherine miller weber omen in british india has been historian antoinette burtons main topic, but she is also widely known for her reflections on imperial historiography. Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with themabout the effect that the researchers race, gender, or class may have on her experience within them or about the impact that archival surveillance, architecture. Antoinette burton is the author of archive stories 3. Dec 30, 2005 despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with themabout the effect that the researchers race, gender, or class may have on her experience within them or about the impact that archival surveillance, architecture, or bureaucracy might have on the histories that are ultimately written. Despite the importance of archives to the subject of history, there has been very. The trouble with empire hardcover antoinette burton.
History 309 gregory hall 810 s wright mc 466 urbana, il 61801. Cognizantofhoweasilywomensauthorialvoicesweremarginalized, especially in the political sphere, dewson drew on masculine authorities to legitimize her truth claims even as she laid claim to alternative sources and modes of expression. It argues that archives affect people differently depending on their gender, nationality, class, race, age, and sexuality. Bastian professor of global and transnational studies. Antoinette burton, professor of history antoinette burton snippet view 2005 archive stories. Women writing house, home and history in late colonial india 2003. The crowns treasury of charters as well as private records from the clergy were collected for historical value as those parties were deemed irrelevant to french society. Antoinette burton department of history, university of illinois 309 gregory hall 810 s. Their regions of study include egypt, australia, north america, south africa, central asia, russia, india, britain, france, and germany.
Archive stories download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. I especially loved the essays on the us passport and the french national archives, as well as the. Women writing house, home, and history in late colonial india oxford university press. Women writing house, home, and history in late colonial india new york, 2003.
Divided between theoretical and practical halves, her new book contains fifteen essays. Antoinette burton s subtle exploration of the multiple senses of dwelling, as home or national abode, and as a meditation upon the objects of history and memory makes for fascinating and insightful reading. Burton that janakis memoir is a story about suggests her mother, hemangini. Britain and india durba ghosh 27 without the past there is no future. Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with themabout the effect that the researchers race, gender, or class may have on her experience within them or about the impact that archival surveillance, architecture, or bureaucracy. Facts, fictions, and the writing of history durham, nc. I am currently working on a bloomsbury series on the cultures of western imperialism and a duke university press series on history teaching. The national archives of france was created informally on july 29, 1789 by the revolutionaries to document the prior ancien regime. An emphasis on global structures and forces tends to privilege elites and their accomplishments, especially in the grand narratives of student textbooks. The archive as contact zone 25 national narratives and the politics of miscegenation. Archives, history, and authority in uzbekistan jeff sahadeo 45. Facts, fictions, and the writing of history by antoinette burton find, read and cite all the research you need.
The archivist 1998 in an era when the echo chambers of cyberspace have given a. Betty joseph, reading the east india company, 17201840. Indians and the colonial encounter in latevictorian britain 1998. The trouble with empire contends that dissent and disruption were constant features of imperial experience and that they should, therefore, drive narratives of the modern british imperial past. Facts, fictions, and the writing of history by burton, antoinette isbn. Biographies of the selfemployed in ethnic and occupational niches of the urban labor market. Women writing house, home, and history in late colonial india. This chapter addresses a dimension of imperial history rarely talked about. One offers a moving reflection on how the relative wealth and prestige of western researchers can gain them entry to collections such as uzbekistans newly formed central state archive. Antoinette burton she is the author of burdens of history. Antoinette burton is professor of history at the university of illinois, urbanachampaign, where she is the catherine c. It is an excellent text filled with the experiences of 15 researchers of archival materials. Antoinette burton editor, tony ballantyne contributor.
Facts, fictions, and the writing of history durham, n. Separately, as of september 9, 1790, the new regime collected contemporaneous documents as. Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with themabout the effect that the researchers race, gender, or class may have on her. Instead, history is created and shaped by the historians personal relationships with archives, its curators and the history of those archives. Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actu. Nostalgia for the nation at the end of the american century, the journal of modern history vol. This book is an antidote to such studies and places ordinary people and subordinated subjects at the heart of its analysis, arguing that disruption and dissent are overlooked agents of historical change. The archive as a political and emotional space is an idea i now wont be able to avoid. Antoinette burton introduction archive fever, archive stories larchivel est difficile dans sa materialite.
Facts, fictions, and the writing of history duke university press, 2005. Facts, fictions, and the writing of history ebook written by antoinette burton. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the first angloafghan wars. World histories from below ebok burton antoinette burton. Processing the past contesting authority in history and. Antoinette burton introduction archive fever, archive stories l archive est difficile clans sa materialite. Janaki majumdar was the daughter of the first president of the indian national congress. Antoinette burton gathered seventeen scholars to reflect on archives as physical and political entities, archival research, and the nature of historical evidence. Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with themabout the effect that the researchers race, gender, or class may have on. See also antoinette burton, dwelling in the archive. In antoinette burton s introduction to archive stories, she states history is not merely a project of fact retrieval. Facts, fictions, and the writing of history 9780822336884.
Jan 25, 2006 antoinette burton, professor of history antoinette burton snippet view 2005 archive stories. The introduction by compiler antoinette burton gives the keys to the map of stories. Processing the past contesting authority in history and the. Archive available for download and read online in other formats. Britain and india durba ghosh without the past there is no future. Women writing house, home, and history in late colonial india oxford university press, 2003. Antoinette burton, helena pohlandtmccormick, horacio n. Archive fever, archive stories antoinette burton 1 part i.
Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with themabout the effect that the researchers race, gender, or class may have on her experience within them or about the impact that archival surveillance, architecture, or bureaucracy might have. Moving across the one hundred years between the first angloafghan war and gandhis salt marches, the book tracks commonalities between different forms of resistance in order to understand how regimes. Gender in the making of imperial and colonial histories, in philippa levine, ed. Dwelling in the archive, which extends antoinette burtons previous. Facts, fictions, and the writing of history antoinette burton, durba ghosh, jeff sahadeo, craig robertson and tony ballantyne. Her unpublished family history 1935 stages the story of her parents. Pdf archive stories download full pdf book download. Dwelling in the archives uses the writing of three 20th century indian women to interrogate the status of the traditional archive, reading their memoirs, fictions, and histories as counternarratives of colonial modernity. Burton, duke university press, 2005, isbn 9780822336884 when was britain. Women writing house, home, and history in late colonial india and at the heart of the empire. Epistemic anxieties and colonial common sense princeton university press, 2009.
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