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Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism by Antoinette Burton (review)

Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism by Antoinette Burton (review) journal of world history, september 2013 Regime French, and by extension European, science in general. In the same way, French colonial history cannot be fully grasped without an examination of colonial science and of the Colonial Machine. Scholars in the field of colonial science have recently begun producing numerous comparative works, and The Colonial Machine should serve as a useful point of comparison with other contemporary empires. The book also constitutes a "map" to guide historians as they further investigate and refine the "French case" (p. 486). The inclusion of an extensive biographical appendix containing information about the men who composed the Colonial Machine will be extremely valuable for both French colonial historians and historians of French science as they embark on the latter task. barbara traver Washington State University Vancouver Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism. By antoinette burton. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2011. 416 pp. $94.95 (cloth); $25.95 (paper). Antoinette Burton's latest volume, Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism, is, in part, a mid-career reflection on her evolution as a scholar and teacher. The collection, in a way Burton's academic "autobiography," also serves as an important retrospective of new http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of World History University of Hawai'I Press

Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism by Antoinette Burton (review)

Journal of World History , Volume 24 (3) – Nov 12, 2013

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journal of world history, september 2013 Regime French, and by extension European, science in general. In the same way, French colonial history cannot be fully grasped without an examination of colonial science and of the Colonial Machine. Scholars in the field of colonial science have recently begun producing numerous comparative works, and The Colonial Machine should serve as a useful point of comparison with other contemporary empires. The book also constitutes a "map" to guide historians as they further investigate and refine the "French case" (p. 486). The inclusion of an extensive biographical appendix containing information about the men who composed the Colonial Machine will be extremely valuable for both French colonial historians and historians of French science as they embark on the latter task. barbara traver Washington State University Vancouver Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism. By antoinette burton. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2011. 416 pp. $94.95 (cloth); $25.95 (paper). Antoinette Burton's latest volume, Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism, is, in part, a mid-career reflection on her evolution as a scholar and teacher. The collection, in a way Burton's academic "autobiography," also serves as an important retrospective of new

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