ABOUT THIS BOOK

Moving Subjects is the first of its kind to make a case not simply for the necessity of a spatial analysis of imperial formations, but for the indispensability of an investigative approach that links space and movement with the domain of the intimate. Through careful archival research and a commitment to excavating the variety of "mobile intimacies" at the heart of imperial power, its agents, and its interlocutors, contributors offer new evidence and approaches for scholars engaged in capturing the historical nuances of imperial domination.

Contributors are Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton, Adrian Carton, David Haines, Katherine Ellinghaus, Charlotte Macdonald, Michael A. McDonnell, Kirsten McKenzie, Michelle Moran, Fiona Paisley, Adele Perry, Dana Rabin, Christine M. Skwiot, Rachel Standfield, Frances Steel, Elizabeth Vibert, and Kerry Wynn.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Tony Ballantyne is an associate professor of history and international studies at Washington University, St Louis, and the author of Between Colonialism and Diaspora: Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World.

Antoinette Burton holds the Bastian Chair in Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is the author of The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau.

REVIEWS

"Compelling."--The Journal of American History

"A valuable collection that contains much fascinating material and many valuable conceptual insights."--Victorian Studies

“Moving Subjects makes a significant contribution to some lively areas of historical scholarship, conceptualizing them in new ways: the history of the body, the history of sexuality, the ‘new imperial’ history, the history of settler societies, and the intersections of race, gender, and class in all of these."--Ann Curthoys, coeditor of Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments   ix
Note on Orthography   xi

Introduction: The Politics of Intimacy in an Age of Empire   1

TONY BALLANTYNE AND ANTOINETTE BURTON

Part 1. Vantage Points: Moving Across Imperial Spaces
1. Violence and the Intimacy of Imperial Ethnography: The Endeavor in the Pacific 31

RACHEL STANDFIELD

2. In Search of the "Whaheen": Ngai Tahu Women, Shore Whalers, and the Meaning of Sex in Early New Zealand 49

DAVID HAINES

3. Writing "Home": Sibling Intimacy and Mobility in a Scottish Colonial Memoir 67

ELIZABETH VIBERT

4. Intimacy of the Envelope: Fiction, Commerce, and Empire in the Correspondence of Friends Mary Taylor and Charlotte Bronte, c. 1845-55 89

CHARLOTTE MACDONALD

5. Suva under Steam: Mobile Men and a Colonial Port Capital, 1880s-1910s 110

FRANCES STEEL

6. Performing "Interracial Harmony": Settler Colonialism at the 1934 Pan-Pacific Women's Conference in Hawai'i 127

FIONA PAISLEY

Part 2. "Affective Economics": Sexuality and the Uses of Intimacy
7. "Il a Epouse une Sauvagesse": Indian and Metis Persistence across Imperial and National Borders 149

MICHAEL A. MCDONNELL

8. "Miss Indian Territory" and "Mr. Oklahoma Territory": Marriage, Settlement, and Citizenship in the Cherokee Nation and the United States 172

KERRY WYNN

9. Genealogies and Histories in Collision: Tourism and Colonial Contestations in Hawai'i, 1900-1930 190

CHRISTINE M. SKWIOT

10. Intimate Assimilation: Comparing White-Indigenous Intermarriage in the United States and Australia, 1880s-1930s 211

KATHERINE ELLINGHAUS

Part 3. Bodies on the Move: Scandals of Imperial Space
11. "Faire and Well-Formed": Portuguese Eurasian Women and Symbolic Whiteness in Early Colonial India 231

ADRIAN CARTON

12. The Sorceress, the Servant, and the Stays: Sexuality and Race in Eighteenth-Century Britain 252

DANA RABIN

13. Social Mobilities at the Cape of Good Hope: Lady Anne Barnard, Samuel Hudson, and the Opportunities of Empire, c. 1797-1824 274

KIRSTEN MCKENZIE

14. Islands of Intimacy: Community, Kinship, and Domesticity, Salt Spring Island, 1866 296

ADELE PERRY

15. Telling Tales of Ko'olau: Containing and Mobilizing Disease in Colonial Hawai'i 315

MICHELLE T. MORAN

Epilogue: The Intimate, the Translocal, and the Imperial in an Age of Mobility 335

TONY BALLANTYNE AND ANTOINETTE BURTON

Contributors 339
Index 343