In the Service of Empire
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-24260-9 (ISBN)
Positioned outside the family but inside the private place of the home, ‘the domestic servant’ was often the foil against which 19th-century contemporaries worked out class, race and gender identities across metropole and colony, creating those places in the process. The role of domestic servants in empire thus lay not only in the labour they undertook, but also in the way the servant-master relationship constituted ground that helped other power relations to be imagined and contested.
Dussart explores the domestic service relationship in 19th-century Britain and India, considering how ideas about servants and their masters and/or mistresses spanned imperial space, and shaped peoples and places within it.
Fae Dussart is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sussex, UK. Major themes of her teaching and research include the meaning and constitution of British, imperial and colonial identity, and the intersection of these with the formation of spaces and places. She is the co-author of Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance: Protecting Aborigines in the Nineteenth Century British Empire (2014).
Introduction: Thinking Mastery, Thinking Servanthood
1. The Structure of Domestic Service in Nineteenth Century Britain
2. Domestic Service and the Colonial Home in India
3. Intimate Knowledge and the Private Servant/Employer Relationship in Britain
4. Colonising the Private Sphere: The Making of a Home from 'Home' in Colonial India
5. Violence, Domestic Authority and the Politics of Imperial Governance
6. Servants Resistance to Mastery in the Imperial Metropole
7. Servant Agency in Colonial Households
Conclusion
Erscheinungsdatum | 08.08.2023 |
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Reihe/Serie | Empire’s Other Histories |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-24260-8 / 1350242608 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-24260-9 / 9781350242609 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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