Acknowledgments  ix

Introduction: On the Inadequacy and the Indispensability of the Nation / Antoinette Burton  1

1. Nations, Empires, Disciplines: Thinking beyond the Boundaries  

Rethinking British Studies: Is There Life after Empire? / Susan D. Pennybacker  27

Transcending the Nation: A Global Imperial History? / Stuart Ward  44

Empire and the Nation: Institutional Practice, Pedagogy, and Nation in the Classroom / Heather Streets  57

We've Just Started Making National Histories, and You Want Us to Stop Already? / Ann Curthoys  70

Losing Our Way after the Imperial Turn: Charting Academic Uses of the Postcolonial / Terri A. Hasseler and Paula M. Krebs  90

Rereading the Archive and Opening up the Nation-State: Colonial Knowledge in South Asia (and Beyond) / Tony Ballantyne  102

2. Fortresses and Frontiers: Beyond and Within  

Unthinking French History: Colonial Studies beyond National Identity / Gary Wilder  125

Notes on a History of Imperial Turns in Modern Germany / Lora Wildenthal  144

After Spain: A Dialogue with Josep M. Fradera on Spanish Colonial Historiography / Christopher Schmidt-Nowara  157

Making the World Safe for American History / Robert Gregg  170

Asian American Global Discourses and the Problem of History / Augusto Espiritu  186

Race, Nationality, Mobility: A History of the Passport / Radhika Viyas Mongia  196

3. Reorienting the Nation: Logics of Empire, Colony, Globe  

Periodizing Johnson: Anticolonial Modernity as Crux and Critique / Clement Hawes  217

The Pudding and the Palace: Labor, Print Culture, and Imperial Britain in 1851 / Lara Kriegel  230

Double Meanings: Nation and Empire in the Edwardian Era / Ian Christopher Fletcher  246

The Fashionable World: Imagined Communities of Dress / Kristin Hoganson  260

The Romance of White Nations: Imperialism, Popular Culture, and National Histories / Hsu-Ming Teo  279

Britain's Finest: The Royal Hong Kong Police / Karen Fang  293

One-Way Traffic: George Lamming and the Portable Empire / John Plotz  308

The Whiteness of Civilization: The Transatlantic Crisis of White Supremacy and British Television Programming in the United States in the 1970s / Douglas M. Haynes  324

Selected Bibliography  343

About the Contributors  357

Index  361

Antoinette Burton

Susan D. Pennybacker

Stuart Ward

Heather Streets

Ann Curthoys

Terri A. Hasseler

Paula M. Krebs

Tony Ballantyne

Gary Wilder

Lora Wildenthal

Robert Gregg

Augusto Espiritu

Radhika Vivas Mongia

Clement Hawes

Lara Kriegel

Ian Christopher Fletcher

Kristin Hoganson

Hsu-Ming Teo

Karen
Fang

John Plotz

Douglas M. Haynes

"[R]ich and comprehensive. . . . Recommended." —Q. E. Wang, Choice

"[A] generally strong compilation of slim essays in a thick volume. . . . [F]or those scholars who recognize that the modern nation state may indeed be a fleeting historical fancy, this tome will offer numerous potent considerations, even for those, like myself, who do not normally concern themselves with issues British." —Akim D. Reinhardt, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History

"[T]he diversity and contentiousness of the contributions offer the scholar of imperialism and nationalism stimulating reading."—Thomas Hajkowski, History: A Review of Books

"The essays which Antoinette Burton has ably put together in After the Imperial Turn provide a valuable insight into the reasoning behind this turn, forcefully stating not only the arguments which have been mustered against the classic practice of imperial history, but illustrating their ramifications in the classroom." —Douglas M. Peers, Canadian Journal of History

"[I]ntellectually stimulating and thought-provoking. . . . This volume is replete with informative reference notes, it contains an excellent select bibliography, and it is a valuable addition to scholarship."—Edward C. Moulton, Journal of World History

"[A] great collection. . . . These scholars are . . . fiercely bright."—Susan Pedersen, The Historical Journal

"The essays in this strong collection are wide-ranging. . . . [S]cholars interested in imperial studies will find After the Imperial Turn a useful and thought-provoking collection."—Juanita De Barros, H-Net, H-Albion

"Taken together, the essays in After the Imperial Turn make a compelling argument for using imperial history to interrogate the place of the nation in Western historiography."—Douglas M. Peers, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics

"[R]ich and comprehensive. . . . Recommended." —Q. E. Wang, Choice

"[A] generally strong compilation of slim essays in a thick volume. . . . [F]or those scholars who recognize that the modern nation state may indeed be a fleeting historical fancy, this tome will offer numerous potent considerations, even for those, like myself, who do not normally concern themselves with issues British." —Akim D. Reinhardt, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History

"[T]he diversity and contentiousness of the contributions offer the scholar of imperialism and nationalism stimulating reading."—Thomas Hajkowski, History: A Review of Books

"The essays which Antoinette Burton has ably put together in After the Imperial Turn provide a valuable insight into the reasoning behind this turn, forcefully stating not only the arguments which have been mustered against the classic practice of imperial history, but illustrating their ramifications in the classroom." —Douglas M. Peers, Canadian Journal of History

"[I]ntellectually stimulating and thought-provoking. . . . This volume is replete with informative reference notes, it contains an excellent select bibliography, and it is a valuable addition to scholarship."—Edward C. Moulton, Journal of World History

"[A] great collection. . . . These scholars are . . . fiercely bright."—Susan Pedersen, The Historical Journal

"The essays in this strong collection are wide-ranging. . . . [S]cholars interested in imperial studies will find After the Imperial Turn a useful and thought-provoking collection."—Juanita De Barros, H-Net, H-Albion

"Taken together, the essays in After the Imperial Turn make a compelling argument for using imperial history to interrogate the place of the nation in Western historiography."—Douglas M. Peers, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics

“This is a timely intervention in the conversation on the nation sparked by critiques of the imperial foundations of modern nations and disciplines. It both assesses the fruits of the ‘imperial turn’ in scholarship and charts new directions on how to think and teach in the aftermath of the critiques of the nation. Incorporating perspectives from a range of disciplines and locations, the essays offer challenging reflections on the historicity of the present.”—Gyan Prakash, editor of After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements

“After the Imperial Turn is an important collection of essays marking the 'coming of age' of 'new imperial history.’ One of its great strengths is its range—from the big picture to the local study, from the pedagogic to the institutional, from the British exemplar to a number of comparative perspectives, from the U.S. to the Caribbean and Hong Kong. This is an essential read for aspiring young historians.”—Catherine Hall, author of Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867

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