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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: On the Inadequacy and the Indispensability of the Nation -- 1. Nations, Empires, Disciplines: Thinking beyond the Boundaries -- Rethinking British Studies: Is There Life after Empire? -- Transcending the Nation: A Global Imperial History? -- Empire and ''the Nation'': Institutional Practice, Pedagogy, and Nation in the Classroom -- We've Just Started Making National Histories, and You Want Us to Stop Already? -- Losing Our Way after the Imperial Turn: Charting Academic Uses of the Postcolonial -- Rereading the Archive and Opening up the Nation-State: Colonial Knowledge in South Asia (and Beyond) -- 2. Fortresses and Frontiers: Beyond and Within -- Unthinking French History: Colonial Studies beyond National Identity -- Notes on a History of ''Imperial Turns'' in Modern Germany -- After ''Spain'': A Dialogue with Josep M. Fradera on Spanish Colonial Historiography -- Making the World Safe for American History -- Asian American Global Discourses and the Problem of History -- Race, Nationality, Mobility: A History of the Passport -- 3. Reorienting the Nation: Logics of Empire, Colony, Globe -- Periodizing Johnson: Anticolonial Modernity as Crux and Critique -- The Pudding and the Palace: Labor, Print Culture, and Imperial Britain in 1851 -- Double Meanings: Nation and Empire in the Edwardian Era -- The Fashionable World: Imagined Communities of Dress -- The Romance of White Nations: Imperialism, Popular Culture, and National Histories -- Britain's Finest: The Royal Hong Kong Police -- One-Way Traffic: George Lamming and the Portable Empire -- The Whiteness of Civilization: The Transatlantic Crisis of White Supremacy and British Television Programming in the United States in the 1970s -- Selected Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index