Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Archive Fever, Archive Stories / Antoinette Burton 1

Part I. Close Encounters: The Archive as Contact Zone 25

National Narratives and the Politics of Miscegenation: Britain and India / Durba Ghosh 27

“Without the Past There is No Future”: Archives, History, and Authority in Uzbekistan / Jeff Sahadeo 45

Mechanisms of Exclusion: Historicizing the Archive and the Passport / Craig Roberston 68

Mr. Peal’s Archive: Mobility and Exchange in Histories of Empire / Tony Ballantyne 87

A Living Archive of Desire: Teresita la Campesina and the Embodient of Queer Latino Community Histories / Horacio N. Roque Ramirez 111

Toiling in the Archives of Cyberspace / Renee M. Sentilles 136

Part II. States of Art: “Official” Archives and Counter-Histories 157

“What Is an Archive?” in the History of Modern France / Jennifer S. Milligan 159

The Archive and the Case of the German Nation / Peter Fritzsche 184

On the Biography of the Bakunin Family Archive / John Randolph 209

Creating the “Suffragette Spirit”: British Feminism and the Historical Imagination / Laura Mayhall 232

Archives of the Unbuilt Environment: Documents and Discourses of Imagined Space in Twentieth-Century Kohler, Wisconsin / Kathryn J. Oberdeck 251

Fiction’s Imaginative Archive and the Newspaper’s Local Scandals: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Egypt / Marilyn Booth 274

Part III. Archive Matters: The Past in the Present 297

In Good Hands: Researching the 1976 Soweto Uprising in the State Archives of South Africa / Helena Pohlandt-McCormick 299

The Colonial Archive on Trial: Possession, Dispossession, and History in Delgamuukw v. British Columbia / Adele Perry 325

The History of Killing and the Killing of History / Ann Curthoys 351

Selected Bibliography 375

Contributors 381

Index 385