""After the Imperial Turn" is an important collection of essays marking the 'coming of age' of 'new imperial history.' One of its great strengths is its range--from the big picture to the local study, from the pedagogic to the institutional, from the British exemplar to a number of comparative perspectives, from the U.S. to the Caribbean and Hong Kong. This is an essential read for aspiring young historians."--Catherine Hall, author of "Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867"

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: On the Inadequacy and the Indispensability of the Nation / Antoinette Burton 1
1. Nations, Empires, Disciplines: Thinking beyond the Boundaries
Rethinking British Studies: Is There Life after Empire? / Susan D. Pennybacker 27
Transcending the Nation: A Global Imperial History? / Stuart Ward 44
Empire and “the Nation”: Institutional Practice, Pedagogy, and Nation in the Classroom / Heather Streets 57
We've Just Started Making National Histories, and You Want Us to Stop Already? / Ann Curthoys 70
Losing Our Way after the Imperial Turn: Charting Academic Uses of the Postcolonial / Terri A. Hasseler and Paula M. Krebs 90
Rereading the Archive and Opening up the Nation-State: Colonial Knowledge in South Asia (and Beyond) / Tony Ballantyne 102
2. Fortresses and Frontiers: Beyond and Within
Unthinking French History: Colonial Studies beyond National Identity / Gary Wilder 125
Notes on a History of “Imperial Turns” in Modern Germany / Lora Wildenthal 144
After “Spain”: A Dialogue with Josep M. Fradera on Spanish Colonial Historiography / Christopher Schmidt-Nowara 157
Making the World Safe for American History / Robert Gregg 170
Asian American Global Discourses and the Problem of History / Augusto Espiritu 186
Race, Nationality, Mobility: A History of the Passport / Radhika Viyas Mongia 196
3. Reorienting the Nation: Logics of Empire, Colony, Globe
Periodizing Johnson: Anticolonial Modernity as Crux and Critique / Clement Hawes 217
The Pudding and the Palace: Labor, Print Culture, and Imperial Britain in 1851 / Lara Kriegel 230
Double Meanings: Nation and Empire in the Edwardian Era / Ian Christopher Fletcher 246
The Fashionable World: Imagined Communities of Dress / Kristin Hoganson 260
The Romance of White Nations: Imperialism, Popular Culture, and National Histories / Hsu-Ming Teo 279
Britain's Finest: The Royal Hong Kong Police / Karen Fang 293
One-Way Traffic: George Lamming and the Portable Empire / John Plotz 308
The Whiteness of Civilization: The Transatlantic Crisis of White Supremacy and British Television Programming in the United States in the 1970s / Douglas M. Haynes 324
Selected Bibliography 343
About the Contributors 357
Index 361