This seminar will assess some of the recent literature on colonialism with a view to examining core institutions and values that structured the colonial order from the late 18th through the mid-20th century. In addition to the required reading students will be required to present reports to the class on special subjects and to lead several class discussions. Two 15 to 18 page papers on major subjects of historiography or the analysis of major historical events will be required. Opportunity will be provided for students to pursue individual interests or research topics in imperialism and colonialism.

The following books are available for purchase:
The remaining readings are available in a reader at University Copy.
Reading List:
E. M. Collingham, Imperial Bodies Polity ISBN 0-7456-2370-0
F. Cooper & A. Stoler, Tensions of Empire California ISBN 0-520-20605-3
R. Kipling, Kim Penguin ISBN 0-14-043281-7
A. McClintock, Imperial Leather Routledge ISBN 0-415-90890-6
A. Stoler, Carnal Knowledge California ISBN 0-520-23111-2
N. Thomas, Colonialism's Culture Princeton ISBN 0-691-03731-0
N. Thomas & R. Eves, Bad Colonists Duke ISBN 0-8223-2222-6

Week I. Introduction 1 (January 22)
Reading:
Fred Cooper & Ann Stoler, eds., Tensions of Empire, pp. 1-56, 152-60

Week II. Introduction 2 (January 29)
Reading:
Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather

Week III. Constructing Race and Difference (February 5)
Reading:
Cooper & Stoler, Tensions, pp. 59-86
Thomas, Colonialism’s Culture, pp. 1-104
Susan Bayly in Peter Robb, ed., Race in South Asia, pp. 165-218
Recommended: Metcalf, Ideologies of the Raj, pp. 66-159

Week IV. Constructing Gender andSexuality (February 12)
Reading:
Ann Stoler, Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power
Stoler, Race and the Education of Desire, ch.
Jenny Sharpe, Allegories of Empire, pp. 85-110

Week V. Race and Respectability (February 19)
Reading:
E. Collingham, Imperial Bodies
Beth Tobin, Picturing Imperial Power, pp. 110-38
Durba Ghosh, UCB dissertation, chapts. 2 & 4
Recommended: William Dalrymple, White Mughals

Week VI. Ordering Colonial Societies 1 - Missions and Missionaries (Feb. 26)
Reading:
Cooper and Stoler, pp. 238-62
Thomas, Colonialism’s Culture, pp. 105-42
D. Livingstone, Missionary Travels, pp. 1-32
Recommended in addition: Catherine Hall, Civilizing Subjects (chapters on Jamaica), OR
Jean and John Comaroff, Of Revelation and Revolution, Vol. 1, esp. pp. 170-314

Week VII. Ordering Colonial Societies 2 - Traders and Travellers (Mar. 5)
Reading:
Nicholas Thomas & Richard Eves, Bad Colonists
Thomas, Colonialism’s Culture, pp. 143-69
Recommended: Mary Kingsley, Travels in West Africa

Week VIII. Representing Colonial Societies in Fiction (Mar. 12)
Reading:
R. Kipling, Kim
R. Kipling, ‘Beyond the Pale’ & ‘Without Benefit of Clergy’
Recommended: Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm
Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa

Week IX. Ordering Colonial Space (Mar. 19)
Reading:
Cooper & Stoler, Tensions, pp. 322-45
Brenda Yeoh, Contesting Space [Singapore], pp. 136-54, 243-80
Swati
William Glover, UCB dissertation on Lahore - ‘Object Lessons’

Week X. How Empire Mattered (Friday, April 4 – note date change)
N.B. Day-long symposium on empire and history.
Reading: to be assigned, including papers presented to the symposium

Week XI. Ambiguities of Self and Other: Crossdressing, Intelligence Gathering, and Subversion (Apr. 9)
Reading:
Lady Mary Montagu,
Richard Burton, Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Mecca
Tobin, Picturing Imperial Power, pp. 81-109
Julia Clancy-Smith, ‘The Passionate Nomad Reconsidered’, in Strobel and Chaudhuri, Western Women and Imperialism, pp. 61-78
Priya Satia UCB dissertation - on Arabia, Gertrude Bell, et al.

Week XII. Constructing ‘Good’ Colonial Subjects (Apr. 16)
Reading:
Cooper and Stoler, pp. 287-321, 346-70 & 373-405
Patrick Wolfe, AHR
Deana Heath UCB dissertation on censorship and morality
Film: Rabbit Proof Fence

Week XIII. Periphery as Center: (Apr. 23)
Reading:
Thomas Metcalf, ‘Empire Recentered: India in the Indian Ocean Arena’, pp. 25-39
Metcalf, ‘Hard Hands and Sound Healthy Bodies: Recruiting “Coolies” for Natal’,
JICH (2002), Vol. 30 (3), pp. 1-26
Madhavi Kale, Fragments of Empire, pp. 133-75
M.D. North-Coombes, ‘Indentured Labour in the Sugar Industries of Natal and Mauritius, 1834-1910’, pp. 12-88

Week XIV. Center as Periphery: (Apr. 30)
Reading:
Michael Fisher, Travels of Dean Mahomet
Antoinette Burton, At the Heart of Empire, chapts. 1, 4
Recommended: V. S. Naipaul, The Enigma of Arrival

Week XV. (May 7) NO CLASS

May 8 (by midnight). Rough drafts circulated to seminar by email attachment (optional)

May 9, during office hours. Paper copies made available to Professor Metcalf, the assigned critic, and deposited in the History library for general reading.

May 10, 3 p.m. Seminar meeting at Professor Metcalf’s house -- 123 Ardmore Road, Kensington.
[Off Arlington Avenue three miles north of campus. Number 7 bus stop one block away at Chevron station. Home phone 526-3683]
6 p.m. adjourn for drinks and dinner.

May 16, 9 a.m. Final papers submitted to Professor Metcalf, in his box in departmental office. Email attachments not accepted.