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...

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Published in:	American Historical Review Vol. 124; no. 4; pp. 1249 - 1267
Main Author:	Sklar, Kathryn Kish
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Oct2019
Subjects:	Antebellum Period (U.S.) Households History of imperialism Colonists Cherokee history North American history Beecher, Catharine Esther, 1800-1878 History of Christian missions History of education
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Summary:	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.