TY - BOOK AU - Cooper,Frederick AU - Stoler,Ann Laura TI - Tensions of empire: colonial cultures in a bourgeois world SN - 0520205405 AV - D359 .T4 1997 U1 - 909.8 20 PY - 1997///] CY - Berkeley, Calif. PB - University of California Press KW - History, Modern KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Imperialism KW - History KW - Colonies KW - Europe KW - 1789-1900 N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface Acknowledgments Between Metropole and Colony: Rethinking a Research Agenda Ann Laura Stoler and Frederick Cooper Part I Framings 1 Liberal Strategies of Exclusion Uday S. Mehta 2 Imperialism and Motherhood Anna Davin 3 Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse Homi Bhabha Part II Making Boundaries Contents 4 Images of Empire, Contests of Conscience: Models of Colonial Domination in South Africa John L. Comaroff 5 Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers: European Identities and the Cultural Politics of Exclusion in Colonial Southeast Asia Ann Laura Stoler 6 "The Conversion of Englishmen and the Conversion of the World Inseparable": Missionary Imperialism and the Language of Class in Early Industrial Britain Susan Thorne 7 Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the German Colonial Empire Lora Wildenthal Part III Colonial Projects 8 "Le bebe en brousse": European Women, African Birth Spacing, and Colonial Intervention in Breast Feeding in the Belgian Congo Nancy Rose Hunt 9 Tradition in the Service of Modernity: Architecture and Urbanism in French Colonial Policy, 190G-1930 Gwendolyn Wright 10 Educating Conformity in French Colonial Algeria Fanny Colonna Part IV Contesting the Categories of Rule 11 The Difference-Deferral of a Colonial Modernity: Public Debates on Domesticity in British Bengal Dipesh Chakrabarty 12 The Dialectics of Decolonization: Nationalism and Labor Movements in Postwar French Africa Frederick Cooper 13 Cars Out of Place: Vampires, Technology, and Labor in East and Central Africa Luise White Notes on Contributors Index N2 - Starting with the premise that Europe was made by its imperial projects as much as colonial encounters were shaped by events and conflicts in Europe, this volume investigates metropolitan-colonial relationships. It shows how "civilizing missions" often provided new sites for a bourgeois order ER -