Sources and Methods in Histories of Colonialism

Approaching the Imperial Archive

This book facilitates a deeper understanding of the challenges of working with a range of specific source genres within imperial and colonial archives. Drawing material from a range of modern empires from the late 18th century to the present day, chapters consider the ways in which newer ways of thinking about the past have challenged more traditional views of `the archive¿, provoking questions about what archives are and where their conceptual, geographical and chronological boundaries lie. Exa... (Læs mere)