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Table of Contents
Introduction / Jonathan Lamb
pt. 1. Europe
Settlers, workers, and soldiers : the landscape of total mobilization / Georges Teyssot
Settlers on the edge, or sedentary nomads : Andrei Platonov and steppe history / Donna Landry
Creole Europe : the reflection of a reflection / Christopher Pinney
pt. 2. America
Alexander Hamilton and the new republic's creole complex / Sean Goudie
The shrug of horror : creole performance at King's Bench / James Epstein
Taxonomies of terror / Colin Dayan
pt. 3. Africa
Voortrekkers of the Cold War : enacting the South African past and present in Mark Behr's The smell of apples / Monica Popescu
History below the water line : the making of apartheid's last festival / Leslie Witz
Failing with Livingstone : a voyage of re-enactment on Lake Nyassa / Iain McCalman
pt. 4. Australia
Alcheringa : invisible aborigines on TV / Chris Healy
Colonialism and re-enactment history : imagining belonging in Outback House / Catriona Elder
Blacking up for the explorers of 1951 / Stephen Gapps
pt. 5. New Zealand
"The finest race of savages the world has seen" : how empire turned out differently in Australia and New Zealand / Mark Williams
Making history forwards : the second settlement of Aotearoa, New Zealand / Stephen Turner
Re-enactment and the natural history of settlement / Alex Calder
Native reenactments/living iterability : Lisa Reihana's Native portraits, n.19897 / Jo Smith
Epilogue: Genealogies of space in colonial and postcolonial reenactment / Vanessa Agnew.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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