Suchergebnisse

"The rightful owners of the soil": colonization and land -- "To intermeddle in political affairs": new institutions, elections, and lawmaking -- "Damned yankee court and jury": more new institutions, keeping order and peace -- Public mothers: women, networks, and changing gender roles -- "A humble ... people": economic adaptations -- Blanket claims and family clusters: autonomy, land, migration, and persistence

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Bodies, Empires, and World Histories -- I. Thresholds of Modernity: Mapping Genders -- Masculinity and the Bangash Nawabs of Farrukhabad -- An Island of Women: Gender in Qing Travel Writing about Taiwan -- Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology, 1500–1770 -- Christian Morality in New Spain: The Nahua Woman in the Franciscan Imaginary -- Eva's Men: Gender and Power at the Cape of Good Hope -- Colonial Bodies, Hygiene, and Abolitionist Politics in Eighteenth-Century France -- II. Global Empires, Local Encounters -- Women, Property, and Power in Eighteenth-Century Cairo -- Reproducing Colonialism in British Columbia, 1849–1871 -- Native American and Métis Women as ''Public Mothers'' in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest -- Britishness, Clubbability, and the Colonial Public Sphere -- Muscular Catholicism: Nationalism, Masculinity, and Gaelic Team Sports, 1884–1916 -- Reproducing the ''French Race'': Immigration and Pronatalism in Early-Twentieth-Century France -- Race Hysteria, Darwin 1938 -- Tattooed Secrets: Women's History in Magude District, Southern Mozambique -- III. The Mobility of Politics and the Politics of Mobility -- An Ottoman Occidentalist in Europe: Ahmed Midhat Meets Madame Gülnar, 1889 -- Out of India: The Journeys of the Begam of Bhopal, 1901–1930 -- Celibacy, Sexuality, and Nationalism in North India -- Women's Liberation and Islam in Soviet Uzbekistan, 1926–1941 -- Gender, Power, and U.S. Imperialism: The Occupation of Japan, 1945–1952 -- History and Memory: The ''Comfort Women'' Controversy -- ''One Black Allah'': The Middle East in the Cultural Politics of African American Liberation, 1955–1970 -- Postscript: Bodies, Genders, Empires: Reimagining World Histories -- Index