GUEST EDITORS Christina Parolin and Robyn Westcott
EDITORIAL ADVISORS
Tony Bennett, Open University, UK; Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago; James K.
Chandler, University of Chicago; W. Robert Connor, Queens University of Charlotte; Michael
Davis, University of Tasmania; Ian Donaldson, The Australian National University; Saul
Dubow, University of Sussex; Valerie I. J. Flint, University of Hull; Christopher Forth, The
Australian National University; Margaret R. Higonnet, University of Connecticut; Caroline
Humphrey, University of Cambridge; Lynn Hunt, University of California, Los Angeles; Mary Jacobus, Cornell University; W. J. F. Jenner, The Australian National University; Peter Jones, University of Edinburgh; E. Ann Kaplan, State University of New York at Stony
Brook; Dominick LaCapra, Cornell University; David MacDougall, The Australian National University; Iain McCalman, The Australian National University; Fergus Millar, University
of Oxford; Anthony Milner, The Australian National University; Howard Morphy, The
Australian National University; Meaghan Morris, Lingnan University, Hong Kong; Tessa
Morris-Suzuki, The Australian National University; Martha Nussbaum, University of
Chicago; Paul Patton, University of New South Wales; Paul Pickering, The Australian National
University; Monique Skidmore, The Australian National University; Mandy Thomas,
Australian Research Council; Caroline Turner, The Australian National University; James
Walter, Monash University.
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VOL XIII, NO. 1, 2006 ISSN: 1440-0669