Along the archival grain : epistemic anxieties and colonial common sense / Ann Laura Stoler.
Along the archival grain : epistemic anxieties and colonial common sense / Ann Laura Stoler.
Along the archival grain : epistemic anxieties and colonial common sense / Ann Laura Stoler.
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Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2009]
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G 2021/0166
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English
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Physical content
xiii, 316 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Prologue in two parts -- The pulse of the archive -- Colonial archives and their affective states. Habits of a colonial heart ; Developing historical negatives ; Commissions and their storied edges -- Watermarks in colonial history. Hierarchies of credibility ; Imperial dispositions of disregard --...
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Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2009]
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Date Published
[2009]
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'Along the Archival Grain' examines the nature of colonial governance as seen through its archival habits and conventions, and in doing so offers a series of nuanced meditations on the nature of archives and the spirit with which students of empire should approach them.
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Along the archival grain : epistemic anxieties and colonial common sense / Ann Laura Stoler.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-307) and index.
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©2009
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G 2021/0166
Record Identifier
74VKaOq2R2Ag
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaOq2R2Ag
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ISBN
9780691015781
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959.8022
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991024375717602626
