Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (Paperback)

Preface
Acknowledgments

Between Metropole and Colony:
Rethinking a Research Agenda
Ann Laura Stoler and Frederick Cooper

Part I
Framings
1 Liberal Strategies of Exclusion
Uday S. Mehta
2 Imperialism and Motherhood
Anna Davin
3 Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence
of Colonial Discourse
Homi Bhabha

Part II
Making Boundaries
Contents
4 Images of Empire, Contests of Conscience:
Models of Colonial Domination in South Africa
John L. Comaroff
5 Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers:
European Identities and the Cultural Politics
of Exclusion in Colonial Southeast Asia
Ann Laura Stoler
6 "The Conversion of Englishmen and the Conversion
of the World Inseparable": Missionary Imperialism
and the Language of Class in Early Industrial Britain
Susan Thorne
7 Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the German
Colonial Empire
Lora Wildenthal

Part III
Colonial Projects
8 "Le bebe en brousse": European Women, African Birth
Spacing, and Colonial Intervention in Breast Feeding
in the Belgian Congo
Nancy Rose Hunt
9 Tradition in the Service of Modernity: Architecture and
Urbanism in French Colonial Policy, 190G-1930
Gwendolyn Wright
10 Educating Conformity in French Colonial Algeria
Fanny Colonna

Part IV
Contesting the Categories of Rule
11 The Difference-Deferral of a Colonial Modernity:
Public Debates on Domesticity in British Bengal
Dipesh Chakrabarty
12 The Dialectics of Decolonization: Nationalism
and Labor Movements in Postwar French Africa
Frederick Cooper
13 Cars Out of Place: Vampires, Technology, and Labor
in East and Central Africa
Luise White

Notes on Contributors
Index