1st Edition
Sources and Methods in Histories of Colonialism Approaching the Imperial Archive
Introduction, Kirsty Reid & Fiona Paisley Part I: Empires, archives and power 1. Power, knowledge and the imperial archive, Kirsty Reid 2. Democratizing the photographic archive, Jane Lydon Part II: State & official archives 3. Archiving Algeria, Majid Hannoum 4. Official enquiries, G. Roger Knight 5. Colonial censuses, Alexandra Widmer Part III: Tracking ‘subaltern’ voice? 6. Petitions, Victoria Castillo 7. Women Glimpsed in Military archives, Vera Mackie 8. Oral sources, Maria Nugent 9 Insanity's Archive, Catharine Coleborne Part IV: Moving beyond the state 10. Domesticating empire, Penny Edwards 11. Transnationalising empire, Victoria Haskins 12. Living empire, Fiona Paisley
Biography
Kirsty Reid was a senior lecturer in history at the University of Bristol, UK, for many years. In 2011 she moved home to the north of Scotland and became part of the team at the Centre for History at the University of the Highlands and Islands. She now lives and works in northern Scotland. Her research has primarily focused on convict transportation and unfree labour within the British Empire. She is the author of Gender, Crime and Empire: Convicts, Settlers and the State in Early Colonial Australia (Manchester, 2007) and co-editor with Fiona Paisley of Critical Perspectives on Colonialism: Writing the Empire from Below (London, 2014).
Fiona Paisley is a cultural historian at Griffith University, Australia. She works on progressive debates concerning the reform of settler colonialism in the first half of the twentieth century. Her recent books are The Lone Protestor: AM Fernando in Australia and Europe (Canberra, 2012) and Glamour in the Pacific: Cultural Internationalism and Race Politics in the Women’s Pan-Pacific (Honolulu, 2009). Her current projects include a study of internationalism in the Pacific and Australian public opinion, and anti-slavery discourse and settler colonialism in interwar Australia.
"This wide-ranging collection explores the creation of colonial archives, their extent and limitations, and their use and misuse. It offers revealing case studies, as well as important theoretical and methodological insights for practitioners of the history of empire, from undergraduate students to senior scholars."
Robert Aldrich, University of Sydney, Australia
"Kirsty Reid and Fiona Paisley’s provocative collection explores the myriad links between colonial archives, knowledge, and power. These essays transform the archive from a source for history into a historical subject of its own, revealing the many ways archives shaped – and continue to shape – the contours of empire and its legacies. Sources and Methods in Histories of Colonialism should be required reading for anyone who studies the history of empire."
J. P. Daughton, Stanford University, USA
"This book argues that decisions made by researchers surrounding appraisal and description of, and access to, archival materials via their scholarly products have a real-world impact on people and their identities. It serves as a timely reminder that archival decisions do as well."
Sarah R. Demb, Archival Issues
