This text considers the ways in which modernity was constructed through colonialism. Using a variety of archival resources and diverse methodologies, the authors trace modernity’s unstable foundations in the slippages…

Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities presents exciting new perspectives on modern colonial regimes to researchers and students in gender studies, history and cultural studies.

Intends to assess the fate of the nation as a subject of disciplinary inquiry. This title investigates whether the nation remains central, adequate, or even possible as an analytical category…

This collected volume explores the complex impact of E.P. Thompson’s monumental book, The Making of the English Working Class, both as an intellectual project and material object, relating it to…

This reader on world history emphasizes the centrality of raced, sexed, and classed bodies as sites on which imperial power was imagined and exercised, in order to examine the effects…

An Illinois Sampler presents personal accounts from eighteen faculty members at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, about their research and how it enriches and energizes their teaching. Contributors from the…

The literary presence of Harriet Martineau pervades 19th-century English and American culture

Challenges the assumption that an archive is a neutral, immutable, and a historical repository of information. This volume demonstrates innovative research on diverse women from the sixteenth century to the…