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Imperial Formations School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series James F. Brooks General Editor Imperial Formations Contributors Jane Burbank Department of History, New York University Frederick Cooper Department of History, New York University Fernando Coronil Departments of Anthropology and History, University of Michigan Nicholas Dirks Department of Anthropology, Columbia University Prasenjit Duara Department of History, University of Chicago Adeeb Khalid Department of History, Carleton College Ussama Makdisi Department of History, Rice University Carole McGranahan Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder Peter C. Perdue Department of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Irene Silverblatt Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University Ann Laura Stoler Department of Anthropology, New School for Social Research Imperial Formations Edited by Ann Laura Stoler, Carole McGranahan, and Peter C. Perdue School for Advanced Research Press Santa Fe School for Advanced Research Press Post Office Box 2188 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-2188 sarpress.sarweb.org Co-Director and Editor: Catherine Cocks Manuscript Editors: Ann D. Brucklacher, Margaret J. Goldstein Design and Production: Cynthia Dyer Proofreader: Margaret J. Goldstein Indexer: Bruce Tracy Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Imperial formations / edited by Ann Laura Stoler, Carole McGranahan, and Peter C. Perdue. -- 1st ed. p. cm. -- (School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-930618-73-5(pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Imperialism--History. I. Stoler, Ann Laura. II. McGranahan, Carole. III. Perdue, Peter C., 1949- D210.I45 2007 325'.32--dc22 2007005550 Copyright © 2007 by the School for Advanced Research. All rights reserved. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 2007005550 International Standard Book Number: 978-1-938645-25-9 First edition 2007. Cover illustration:Chinese soldiers march outside Potala Palace, Tibet, © AP Images, 2007. Contents Preface ix 1. Introduction: Refiguring Imperial Terrains Ann Laura Stoler and Carole McGranahan 3 Part 1 The Production and Protection of Difference 2. Bringing America Back into the Middle East: A History of the First American Missionary Encounter with the Ottoman Arab World 45 Ussama Makdisi 3. The Rights of Difference: Law and Citizenship in the Russian Empire 77 Jane Burbank 4. The Soviet Union as an Imperial Formation: A View from Central Asia 113 Adeeb Khalid 5. Erasing the Empire, Re-racing the Nation: Racialism and Culturalism in Imperial China 141 Peter C. Perdue Part 2 Rethinking Boundaries, Imaginaries, Empires 6. Empire Out of Bounds: Tibet in the Era of Decolonization 173 Carole McGranahan vii CONTENTS 7. The Imperialism of “Free Nations”: Japan, Manchukuo, and the History of the Present 211 Prasenjit Duara 8. After Empire: Reflections on Imperialism from the Américas 241 Fernando Coronil Part 3 New Genealogies of the Imperial State 9. Modern Inquisitions 275 Irene Silverblatt 10. Imperial Sovereignty 311 Nicholas Dirks 11. Provincializing France 341 Frederick Cooper References 379 Index 421 viii Preface If “the pulse of teaching is persuasion,” as George Steiner con- tends, then its strongest pulse, as we were to learn in this collaborative work, is generated by mutual persuasions that course in unexpected ways.1 This project began in a graduate seminar at the University of Michigan in the fall of 1995. The class was Ann Stoler’s “Culture and Historical Methodologies,” which centered on the politics of colonial historiographies and followed “The Colonial Order of Things” offered the previous semester. Frederick Cooper and Ann Stoler’s edited vol- ume Tensions of Empire was in the final stages of production, and stu- dents read its introduction in manuscript form. Those students from anthropology, history, and sociology whose work was situated in former Ottoman, Russian, and Chinese imperial domains were simultaneously excited and agitated by what they read. Rather than embrace the focused critiques of European empire, a number of seminar partici- pants, Carole McGranahan and Theresa Truax most vocally, forced us all to turn those critiques on their head: how might these critiques of European empire serve to help us understand imperial forms else- where? Were other imperial polities subject to the same structures of dominance as European ones? Would an expanded focus on other empires confirm or challenge the European model of what constituted the prevailing technologies of imperial rule? If taken with the idea of thinking across metropole and colony, dis- ix
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