List of figures
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
Kirsty Reid was a senior lecturer in history at the University of Bristol, UK, for many years. In 2011 she moved home to the north of Scotland and became part of the team at the Centre for History at the University of the Highlands and Islands. She now lives and works in northern Scotland. Her research has primarily focused on convict transportation and unfree labour within the British Empire. She is the author of Gender, Crime and Empire: Convicts, Settlers and the State in Early Colonial Australia (Manchester, 2007) and co-editor with Fiona Paisley of Critical Perspectives on Colonialism: Writing the Empire from Below (London, 2014).
Fiona Paisley is a cultural historian at Griffith University, Australia. She works on progressive debates concerning the reform of settler colonialism in the first half of the twentieth century. Her recent books are The Lone Protestor: AM Fernando in Australia and Europe (Canberra, 2012) and Glamour in the Pacific: Cultural Internationalism and Race Politics in the Women’s Pan-Pacific (Honolulu, 2009). Her current projects include a study of internationalism in the Pacific and Australian public opinion, and anti-slavery discourse and settler colonialism in interwar Australia.
"This wide-ranging collection explores the creation of colonial
archives, their extent and limitations, and their use and misuse.
It offers revealing case studies, as well as important theoretical
and methodological insights for practitioners of the history of
empire, from undergraduate students to senior scholars."Robert
Aldrich, University of Sydney, Australia"Kirsty Reid and Fiona
Paisley’s provocative collection explores the myriad links between
colonial archives, knowledge, and power. These essays transform the
archive from a source for history into a historical subject of its
own, revealing the many ways archives shaped – and continue to
shape – the contours of empire and its legacies. Sources and
Methods in Histories of Colonialism should be required reading for
anyone who studies the history of empire."J. P. Daughton, Stanford
University, USA
"This wide-ranging collection explores the creation of colonial
archives, their extent and limitations, and their use and misuse.
It offers revealing case studies, as well as important theoretical
and methodological insights for practitioners of the history of
empire, from undergraduate students to senior scholars."Robert
Aldrich, University of Sydney, Australia"Kirsty Reid and Fiona
Paisley’s provocative collection explores the myriad links between
colonial archives, knowledge, and power. These essays transform the
archive from a source for history into a historical subject of its
own, revealing the many ways archives shaped – and continue to
shape – the contours of empire and its legacies. Sources and
Methods in Histories of Colonialism should be required reading for
anyone who studies the history of empire."J. P. Daughton, Stanford
University, USA "This book argues that decisions made by
researchers surrounding appraisal and description of, and access
to, archival materials via their scholarly products have a
real-world impact on people and their identities. It serves as a
timely reminder that archival decisions do as well."Sarah R. Demb,
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