Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with them about the effect that the researcher s race, gender, or class may have on her experience within them or about the impact that archival surveillance, architecture, or bureaucracy might have on the histories that are ultimately written. This provocative collection initiates a vital conversation about how archives around the world are constructed, policed, manipulated, and experienced. It challenges the claims to objectivity associated with the traditional archive by...

A short, idea driven history of resistance to the British empire, written by a senior British historian.