Her unpublished family history 1935 stages the story of her parents transnational marriage. Historians long to tell their archive stories, but unlike anthropologists, sociologists, and even political scientists, our narratives of fieldwork have little purchase within the professional standards of our discipline, which demand a certain level of professional distance that makes history objective, rendering the archive as a finite site of knowledge about the past and yet. Janaki majumdar was the daughter of the first president of the indian national congress. Rather than reading a good book with a cup of coffee in the afternoon, instead they juggled with some harmful virus inside their desktop computer. History 309 gregory hall 810 s wright mc 466 urbana, il 61801. Antoinette burton department of history, university of illinois 309 gregory hall 810 s. Anils ghost and the ends of history, journal of commonwealth literature 38, 1. Burton, duke university press, 2005, isbn 9780822336884 when was britain.
Bastian professor of global and transnational studies. Archives, history, and authority in uzbekistan jeff sahadeo 45. Durba ghosh, national narratives and the politics of miscegenation in britain and india. It argues that archives affect people differently depending on their gender, nationality, class, race, age, and sexuality. Results archive stories facts fictions and the writing. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the first angloafghan wars. This book offers principles to consider when creating a world history syllabus. Archive stories antoinette burton haftad 9780822336884. One offers a moving reflection on how the relative wealth and prestige of western researchers can gain them entry to. Facts, fictions, and the writing of history by antoinette burton find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Archive stories facts, fictions, and the writing of history. Women writing house, home, and history in late colonial india and at the heart of the empire.
Despite the importance of archives to the subject of history, there has been very little written about actual encounters with them. Facts, fictions, and the writing of history illustrated by burton, antoinette isbn. Instead, history is created and shaped by the historians personal relationships with archives, its curators and the history of those archives. This book uses the writing of three 20th century indian women to interrogate the status of the traditional archive, reading their memoirs, fictions, and histories as counternarratives of colonial modernity. I am currently working on a bloomsbury series on the cultures of western imperialism and a duke university press series on history teaching. Antoinette burton abstract this book uses the writing of three 20th century indian women to interrogate the status of the traditional archive, reading their memoirs, fictions, and histories as counternarratives of colonial modernity. Pdf archive stories, archive realities jared davidson academia. Dwelling in the archives uses the writing of three 20th century indian women to interrogate the status of the traditional archive, reading their memoirs, fictions, and histories as counternarratives of colonial modernity. It resurrects doughtys archive story from the archives of the very institution that he worked tirelessly to create. Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with themabout the effect that the researchers race, gender, or class may have on her experience within them or about the impact that archival surveillance, architecture, or bureau. In an era when the echo chambers of cyberspace have given a whole new dimension to the concept of the archive, questions about the. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read archive stories. Facts, fictions, and the writing of history by antoinette burton find, read and cite all the research you need. Antoinette burton has noted that many of us have archive stories.
Archive stories ebok burton antoinette burton, ghosh. Facts, fictions, and the writing of history antoinette burton, durba ghosh, jeff sahadeo, craig robertson and tony ballantyne. The archive as contact zone 25 national narratives and the politics of miscegenation. It is an excellent text filled with the experiences of 15 researchers of archival materials. Facts, fictions, and the writing of history ebook written by antoinette burton. Archives, history, and authority in uzbekistan jeff sahadeo 45 mechanisms of exclusion. Antoinette burton department of history, university of. Britain and india durba ghosh 27 without the past there is no future. Books by antoinette burton author of archive stories. Dwelling in the archive, which extends antoinette burtons previous explorations of some of the intersections between india and britain in late victorian culture to. Women writing house, home, and history in late colonial india.
The introduction by compiler antoinette burton gives the keys to the map of stories. Her unpublished family history 1935 stages the story of her parents. Archive stories brings together ethnographies of the archival world, most of which are written by historians. This is just one of the solutions for you to be successful. Get free archive stories by antoinette burtonantoinette burton, but end up in malicious downloads. This article uses antoinette burton s concept of the archive story to explore arthur george doughtys making of the durham papers. Britain and india durba ghosh without the past there is no future. Jan 25, 2006 despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with themabout the effect that the researchers race, gender, or class may have on her experience within them or about the impact that archival surveillance, architecture, or bureaucracy might have on the histories that are ultimately written.
Facts, fictions, and the writing of history durham. Kop archive stories av burton antoinette burton, ghosh durba ghosh, sahadeo jeff sahadeo, robertson craig robertson, ballantyne tony ballantyne pa. Despite the importance of archives to the subject of history. Archive fever, archive stories antoinette burton part i. Antoinette burton introduction archive fever, archive stories l archive est difficile clans sa materialite. Facts, fictions, and the writing of history on jstor.
Antoinette burton s most popular book is archive stories. It challenges the claims to objectivity associated with the traditional archive by telling stories that illuminate its power to shape the narratives that are found there. Archive fever, archive stories antoinette burton 1 part i. Burton, the editor of this collection of essays, defines archive stories as. Facts, fictions, and the writing of history durham, n. Historians long to tell their archive stories, but unlike anthropologists, sociologists, and even political scientists, our narratives of fieldwork have little purchase within the professional standards of our discipline, which demand a certain level of professional distance that makes history objective, rendering the archive as a finite site of knowledge about the past. This anthology compares scholarly findings from around the world to. Nostalgia for the nation at the end of the american century, the journal of modern history vol. Antoinette burton has 35 books on goodreads with 1432 ratings. Facts, fictions, and the writing of history edited by. Facts, fictions, and the writing of history, antoinette burton. Facts, fictions, and the writing of history pdf edited by burton antoinette burton.
N2 this book uses the writing of three 20th century indian women to interrogate the status of the traditional archive, reading their memoirs, fictions, and histories as counternarratives of colonial modernity. Antoinette burton has done everyone who teaches world history a great service. Women writing house, home, and history in late colonial india new york, 2003. Their regions of study include egypt, australia, north america, south africa, central asia, russia, india, britain, france, and germany. This chapter addresses a dimension of imperial history rarely talked about. Despite the importance of archives to the subject of history, there has been. Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with themabout the effect that the researchers race, gender, or class may have on her experience within them or about the impact that archival surveillance, architecture, or bureaucracy might have on the histories that are ultimately written. National narratives and the politics of miscegenation. See also antoinette burton, dwelling in the archive. Gender in the making of imperial and colonial histories, in philippa levine, ed. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Antoinette burton is professor of history at the university of illinois, urbanachampaign, where she is the catherine c. Antoinette burton is the author of archive stories 3. It will be used by university faculty, graduate students, and high school teachers who are teaching world history for the first time or want to rethink their approach to teaching the.
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