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Antoinette Burton

Professor, Department Chair of History and African Studies

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Areas of Specialization

Britain and the Empire, history of Women and Gender, and World history

Publications

Books

  • with Tony Ballantyne, Moving Subjects: Gender, Mobility and Intimacy in an Age of Global Empire. University of Illinois Press, 2008.
  • The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau. Duke University Press, 2007.
  • with Tony Ballantyne, Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History. Duke University Press, 2005.
  • Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home and History in Late Colonial India. Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late Victorian Briatin. University of California Press, 1998.
  • Burdens of History: Britsih Feminists, Indian Women and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915. University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

Book Contributions

  • "Cornelia Sorabji." Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Oxford University Press, 2007.

Edited Books

  • After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation. Duke University Press, 2003.
  • Politics and Empire in Victorian Britain. Palgrave, 2001.

Journal Articles

  • Burton, Antoinette, and Jean Allman. "Gender, Colonialism and Feminist Collaboration (part of “Teaching Radical History” section." Radical History Review 101 (2008): 198-222.
  • Burton, Antoinette. "Not Even Remotely Global? Method and Scale in World History." History Workshop Journal 64.1 (2007): 323-28.