Tensions of Empire

Frederick Cooper is Professor of African History at the University of Michigan. His latest book is Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa (1996). Ann Laura Stoler is Professor of Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan and author most recently of Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things (1995).

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsBetween Metropole and Colony:Rethinking a Research AgendaAnn Laura Stoler and Frederick CooperPart IFramings1 Liberal Strategies of ExclusionUday S. Mehta2 Imperialism and MotherhoodAnna Davin3 Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalenceof Colonial DiscourseHomi BhabhaPart IIMaking BoundariesContents4 Images of Empire, Contests of Conscience:Models of Colonial Domination in South AfricaJohn L. Comaroff5 Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers:European Identities and the Cultural Politicsof Exclusion in Colonial Southeast AsiaAnn Laura Stoler6 "The Conversion of Englishmen and the Conversionof the World Inseparable": Missionary Imperialismand the Language of Class in Early Industrial BritainSusan Thorne7 Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the GermanColonial EmpireLora WildenthalPart IIIColonial Projects8 "Le bebe en brousse": European Women, African BirthSpacing, and Colonial Intervention in Breast Feedingin the Belgian CongoNancy Rose Hunt9 Tradition in the Service of Modernity: Architecture andUrbanism in French Colonial Policy, 190G-1930Gwendolyn Wright10 Educating Conformity in French Colonial AlgeriaFanny ColonnaPart IVContesting the Categories of Rule11 The Difference-Deferral of a Colonial Modernity:Public Debates on Domesticity in British BengalDipesh Chakrabarty12 The Dialectics of Decolonization: Nationalismand Labor Movements in Postwar French AfricaFrederick Cooper13 Cars Out of Place: Vampires, Technology, and Laborin East and Central AfricaLuise WhiteNotes on ContributorsIndex