List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: thinking the postcolonial, thinking the empire

Catherine Hall

PART I USING THEORY

`Sex' and `race': the construction of language and image in the nineteenth century

Joanna de Groot

Race, gender, science and citizenship

Nancy Leys Stepan

Cultivating bourgeois bodies and racial selves

Ann Laura Stoler

Subaltern Studies as postcolonial criticism

Gyan Prakash

Who needs the nation? Interrogating `British' history

Antoinette Burton

PART II THE EMPIRE AND ITS OTHERS `AT HOME'

Citizenship, empire, and modernity in the English provinces, c. 1720--90

Kathleen Wilson

Death on the Nile: fantasy and the literature of tourism, 1840-60

John Barrell

Race against time: racial discourse and Irish history

Luke Gibbons

Uncovering the zenana: visions of Indian womanhood in Englishwomen's writings, 1813-1940

Janaki Nair

Sex, citizenship, and the nation in World War II Britain

Sonya O. Rose

PART III THE EMPIRE AND ITS OTHERS `AWAY'

Real men hunt buffalo: masculinity, race and class in British fur traders' narratives

Elizabeth Vibert

Colonial conversions: difference, hierarchy, and history in early twentieth-century evangelical propaganda

Nicholas Thomas

`Cocky' Hahn and the `Black Venus': the making of a Native Commissioner in South West Africa, 1915-46

Patricia Hayes

PART IV LEGACIES OF EMPIRE

Not just (any) body can be a citizen: the politics of law, sexuality and postcoloniality in Trinidad and Tobago and the Bahamas

M. Jacqui Alexander

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