Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History

CONTENTS
Introduction: Archive Fever, Archive Stories / Antoinette Burton

PART - Close Encounters: The Archive as Contact Zone
National Narratives and the Politics of Miscegenation: Britain and India / Durba Ghosh
“Without the Past There Is No Future”: Archives, History, and Authority in Uzbekistan / Jeff Sahadeo
Mechanisms of Exclusion: Historicizing the Archive and the Passport / Craig Roberston
Mr. Peal’s Archive: Mobility and Exchange in Histories of Empire / Tony Ballantyne
A Living Archive of Desire: Teresita la Campesina and the Embodiment of Queer Latino Community Histories / Horacio N. Roque Ramírez
Toiling in the Archives of Cyberspace / Renée M. Sentilles

PART - States of the Art: “Official” Archives and Counter-Histories
“What Is an Archive?” in the History of Modern France / Jennifer S. Milligan
The Archive and the Case of the German Nation / Peter Fritzsche
On the Biography of the Bakunin Family Archive / John Randolph
Creating the “Suffragette Spirit”: British Feminism and the Historical Imagination / Laura Mayhall
Archives of the Unbuilt Environment: Documents and Discourses of Imagined Space in Twentieth-Century Kohler, Wisconsin / Kathryn J. Oberdeck
Fiction’s Imaginative Archive and the Newspaper’s Local Scandals: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Egypt
Marilyn Booth

PART - Archive Matters: The Past in the Present
In Good Hands: Researching the 1976 Soweto Uprising in the State Archives of South Africa / Helena Pohlandt-Mccormick
The Colonial Archive on Trial: Possession, Dispossession, and History in Delgamuukw v. British Columbia / Adele Perry
The History of Killing and the Killing of History / Ann Curthoys

Select Bibliography
Contributors
Index