Reconsidering Domesticity through the Lens of Empire and Settler Society in North America.
Our reconsideration of domesticity comes at a time when empire and colonial and postcolonial categories of analysis are informing many fields of historical study. This essay traces the historiographic origins of the intersection of domesticity and empire, focusing on domesticity's usefulness as a wi...
| Publicado en: | American Historical Review Vol. 124; no. 4; pp. 1249 - 1267 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Oct2019
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| Sumario: | Our reconsideration of domesticity comes at a time when empire and colonial and postcolonial categories of analysis are informing many fields of historical study. This essay traces the historiographic origins of the intersection of domesticity and empire, focusing on domesticity's usefulness as a window on cross-cultural intimacy and conflict. It also offers an example of how previous treatments of domesticity might be revised by taking empire and settler society into account. |
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