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-- CRITICAL HISTORIES --
a series at the University of Pennsylvania Press

Editor: David Ludden

The books in Critical Histories explore social and cultural issues outside national states in Europe and North America. Inflected by work in non-English cultures and languages, they transgress boundaries that separate states, ethnicities, regions, and disciplines; and they seek not only to increase historical knowledge but also to influence the practice of historical writing. These books represent innovative, comparative, interdisciplinary work, critical of both social science universalism and historical particularism, and developing in the lively space in between. Critical Histories provides a forum for scholarship on historical diversity, multiple modernities, and multicultural history.

Books in the Series

Producing Workers: The Politics of Gender, Class, and Culture in the Calcutta Jute Mills by Leela Fernandes (1997)

Writing Cultural History in Colonial and Postcolonial India by Henry Schwarz (1997)

Empire of Free Trade: The East India Company and the Making of the Colonial Marketplace by Sudipta Sen (1998)

Fragments of Empire: Capital, Slavery, and Indian Indentured Labor in the British Caribbean by Madhavi Kale (1998)

In the Blood: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race by Melbourne Tapper (1999)

Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 1600-1850, edited by Martin Daunton and Rick Halpern (1999)

India Against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality by Sanjib Baruah (forthcoming in Fall 1999)

Gandhi's Body: Sex, Diet, and the Politics of Nationalism, by Joseph Alter (Spring 2000)

Haute Cuisine: How the French Invented the Culinary Profession, by Amy Trubek (Spring 2000)