Masculinity and the Bangash Nawabs of Farrukhabad / Rosalind O'Hanlon -- An island of women: gender in Qing travel writing about Taiwan / Emma Jinhua Teng -- Male travelers, female bodies, and the gendering of racial ideology, 1500-1700 / Jennifer L. Morgan -- Christian morality in New Spain: the Nahua women in the Franciscan imaginary / Rebecca Overmyer-Velazquez -- Eva's men: gender and power at the Cape of Good Hope / Julia C. Wells -- Women, property, and power in eighteenth-century Cairo / Mary Ann Fay -- Reproducing colonialism in British Columbia, 1849-1871 / Adele Perry -- Native American and Metis women as 'public mothers' in the nineteenth-century midwest / Lucy Eldersveld Murphy -- Britishness, clubbability, and the colonial public sphere / Mrinalini Sinha -- Muscular Catholicism: nationalism, masculinity, and Gaelic team sports, 1884-1916 / Patrick McDevitt -- Reproducing the 'French race': immigration and pronatalism in early-twentieth-century France / Elisa Camiscioli -- Race hysteria, Darwin 1938 / Fiona Paisley -- Tattooed secrets: women's history in Magude District, southern Mozambique / Heidi Gengenbach -- An Ottoman occidentalist in Europe: Ahmed Midhat meets Madame Gulnar, 1889 / Carter Vaughn Findley -- Out of India: the journeys of the Begam of Bengal, 1901-1930 / Siobhan Lambert-Hurley -- Celibacy, sexuality, and nationalism in North India / Joseph S. Alter -- Women's liberation and Islam in Soviet Uzbekistan, 1926-1941 / Shoshana Keller -- Gender, power, and U.S. imperialism: the occupation of Japan, 1945-1952 / Mire Koikari -- History and memory: the 'comfort women' controversy / Hyun Sook Kim -- 'One black Allah': the Middle East in the cultural politics of African American liberation, 1955-1970 / Melani McAlister -- Postscript: bodies, genders, empires: reimagining world histories / Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton.