Acknowledgments  ix

Introduction: Archive Fever, Archive Stories / Antoinette Burton  1

Part I. Close Encounters: The Archive as Contact Zone  25

National Narratives and the Politics of Miscegenation: Britain and India / Durba Ghosh  27

Without the Past There is No Future: Archives, History, and Authority in Uzbekistan / Jeff Sahadeo  45

Mechanisms of Exclusion: Historicizing the Archive and the Passport / Craig Roberston  68

Mr. Peals Archive: Mobility and Exchange in Histories of Empire / Tony Ballantyne  87

A Living Archive of Desire: Teresita la Campesina and the Embodient of Queer Latino Community Histories / Horacio N. Roque Ramirez  111

Toiling in the Archives of Cyberspace / Renee M. Sentilles   136

Part II. States of Art: Official Archives and Counter-Histories  157

What Is an Archive? in the History of Modern France / Jennifer S. Milligan   159

The Archive and the Case of the German Nation / Peter Fritzsche   184

On the Biography of the Bakunin Family Archive / John Randolph   209

Creating the Suffragette Spirit: British Feminism and the Historical Imagination / Laura Mayhall  232

Archives of the Unbuilt Environment: Documents and Discourses of Imagined Space in Twentieth-Century Kohler, Wisconsin / Kathryn J. Oberdeck  251

Fictions Imaginative Archive and the Newspapers Local Scandals: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Egypt / Marilyn Booth   274

Part III. Archive Matters: The Past in the Present  297

In Good Hands: Researching the 1976 Soweto Uprising in the State Archives of South Africa / Helena Pohlandt-McCormick   299

The Colonial Archive on Trial: Possession, Dispossession, and History in Delgamuukw v. British Columbia / Adele Perry   325

The History of Killing and the Killing of History / Ann Curthoys   351

Selected Bibliography  375

Contributors  381

Index  385

Antoinette Burton

Durba Ghosh

Jeff Sahadeo

Craig Robertson

Tony Ballantyne

Horacio N. Roque Ramírez

Renee Sentilles

Jennifer S. Milligan

Peter Fritzsche

John Randolph

Laura Mayhall

Kathryn J. Oberdeck

Marilyn Booth

Helena Pohlandt-McCormick

Adele Perry

Ann Curthoys

“[The book] is important for archivists to read essays such as we find in Archive Stories because they bring new life and provide new perspectives on the most fundamental questions challenging archivists today.” —Richard J. Cox, The American Archivist

“The readership of a book like this will remain confined to academia. . . and that is a shame. The themes meditated on here, and the desire to explicitly connect historical methodology with issues of public importance and debate, deserve not only the serious and well-considered professional discussion they are given in this anthology, but also a wider public airing.”—Eva-Maria Swidler, World History Connected

“Burton has performed a service to the fields she covers, but mainly to the grand goal that I believe
nearly everyone who engages in research is initially enamored of: the pursuit and expansion of knowledge. With this fine compilation of perspectives and ideas, connected throughout by threads of common and uncommon understanding, Burton enables us to increase our understanding of the nature of historical research.”— John B. Wolford, Oral History Review

“[T]he essays are thought-provoking. . . . [and] provide an entertaining read. . . . [T]hey spur the reader to think more abstractly about how their own experiences relate to the process of writing history. Indeed, the collection offers good fodder for discussions of historiography and historical method.”—Cathleen D. Cahill, Journal of Anthropological Research

“[T]he essays are thoughtful and nuanced, and a pleasure to read.”—Mark Allen Greene, Biography

“These eighteen carefully selected essays elucidate both the personal and the political aspects of historians’ experiences working in archives around the world. . . . Archive Stories is highly recommended to any intelligent reader interested in history, and the ‘history of writing history.’”—Cilla Golas, Journal for the Society of North Carolina Archivists

“These insightful and engaging essays will be useful to anyone who works in archives, on either side of the desk. . . . Professors of library and information science will want to draw from this anthology for courses on archival management. . . . Upper-level history majors and first-year graduate students would benefit from a close reading of the entire volume.”—Elizabeth Bramm Dunn, Historical Methods

“[T]he greatest strength of Archive Stories . . . [is] the stories themselves and what they tell us about the capacity of archival documents—however we choose to define them—to engage the human imagination in unpredictable and subversive ways. All of the stories are exercises in reading archives against the grain. What the narratives that unfold from the readings ultimately reveal are the myriad, complex, and contradictory versions of the past that are capable of being constructed from those archives.”—Heather MacNeil, Journal of Archival Organization

“[The book] is important for archivists to read essays such as we find in Archive Stories because they bring new life and provide new perspectives on the most fundamental questions challenging archivists today.” —Richard J. Cox, The American Archivist

“The readership of a book like this will remain confined to academia. . . and that is a shame. The themes meditated on here, and the desire to explicitly connect historical methodology with issues of public importance and debate, deserve not only the serious and well-considered professional discussion they are given in this anthology, but also a wider public airing.”—Eva-Maria Swidler, World History Connected

“Burton has performed a service to the fields she covers, but mainly to the grand goal that I believe
nearly everyone who engages in research is initially enamored of: the pursuit and expansion of knowledge. With this fine compilation of perspectives and ideas, connected throughout by threads of common and uncommon understanding, Burton enables us to increase our understanding of the nature of historical research.”— John B. Wolford, Oral History Review

“[T]he essays are thought-provoking. . . . [and] provide an entertaining read. . . . [T]hey spur the reader to think more abstractly about how their own experiences relate to the process of writing history. Indeed, the collection offers good fodder for discussions of historiography and historical method.”—Cathleen D. Cahill, Journal of Anthropological Research

“[T]he essays are thoughtful and nuanced, and a pleasure to read.”—Mark Allen Greene, Biography

“These eighteen carefully selected essays elucidate both the personal and the political aspects of historians’ experiences working in archives around the world. . . . Archive Stories is highly recommended to any intelligent reader interested in history, and the ‘history of writing history.’”—Cilla Golas, Journal for the Society of North Carolina Archivists

“These insightful and engaging essays will be useful to anyone who works in archives, on either side of the desk. . . . Professors of library and information science will want to draw from this anthology for courses on archival management. . . . Upper-level history majors and first-year graduate students would benefit from a close reading of the entire volume.”—Elizabeth Bramm Dunn, Historical Methods

“[T]he greatest strength of Archive Stories . . . [is] the stories themselves and what they tell us about the capacity of archival documents—however we choose to define them—to engage the human imagination in unpredictable and subversive ways. All of the stories are exercises in reading archives against the grain. What the narratives that unfold from the readings ultimately reveal are the myriad, complex, and contradictory versions of the past that are capable of being constructed from those archives.”—Heather MacNeil, Journal of Archival Organization

“Archive Stories is path-breaking in its subject matter, methodology, and up-to-date reflection on the status of historical knowledge. It is hard to see how anyone can avoid using this important anthology in methodology and historiography courses.”—Bonnie G. Smith, author of The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice

“Important and timely, this fascinating collection of tales from a multitude of repositories and record offices removes all sorts of archives from the historian’s grasp (though there are many extraordinary and brave historians writing here) and restores their meaning to politics and society, to the telling of individual and collective pasts.”—Carolyn Steedman, author of Dust: The Archive and Cultural History

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