دانلود کتاب In the Service of Empire: Domestic Service and Mastery in Metropole and Colony
by Fae Dussart
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عنوان فارسی: In Service of Empire: Domestic Service and Mastery in Metropole and Colony |
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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.