Antoinette Burton is Professor of History and Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has written and edited many books, including The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau and After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation, both also published by Duke University Press.

Foreword / Mrinalini Sinha xiPreface. A Note on the Logic of the Volume xviiAcknowledgments xixIntroduction. Imperial Optics: Empire Histories, Interpretive Methods 1Part I. Home and Away: Mapping Imperial Cultures1. Rules of Thumb: British History and "Imperial Culture" in Nineteenth-Century and Twentieth-Century Britain (1994) 272. Who Needs the Nation? Interrogating "British" History (1997) 413. Thinking beyond the Boundaries: Empire, Feminism, and the Domains of History (2001) 564. Déjà Vu All over Again (2002) 685. When Was Britain? Nostalgia for the Nation at the End of the "American Century" (2003) 776. Archive Stories: Gender in the Making of Imperial and Colonial Histories (2004) 947. Gender, Colonialism, and Feminist Collaboration (2008, with Jean Allman) 106Part II. Theory into Practice: Doing Critical Imperial History8. Fearful Bodies into Disciplined Subjects: Pleasure, Romance, and the Family Drama of Colonial Reform in Mary Carpenter's Six Months in India (1995) 1239. Contesting the Zenana: The Mission to Make "Lady Doctors for India," 1874¿75 (1996) 15110. Recapturing Jane Eyre: Reflections on Historicizing the Colonial Encounter in Victorian Britain (1996) 17411. From Child Bride to "Hindoo Lady": Rukhmabai and the Debate on Sexual Respectability of Imperial Britain (1998) 18412. Tongues United: Lord Salisbury's "Black Man" and the Boundaries of Imperial Democracy (2000) 21413. India Inc.?: Nostalgia, Memory, and the Empire of Things (2001) 24114. New Narratives of Imperial Politics in the Nineteenth Century (2006) 257Coda. Empire of/and the World?: The Limits of British Imperialism15. Getting Outside of the Global: Repositioning British Imperialism in World History 275Afterword / C. A. Bayly 293Notes 303Index 381