Author: Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1782385401
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Norwegians in colonial Africa and Oceania had varying aspirations and adapted in different ways to changing social, political and geographical circumstances in foreign, colonial settings. They included Norwegian shipowners, captains, and diplomats; traders and whalers along the African coast and in Antarctica; large-scale plantation owners in Mozambique and Hawai’i; big business men in South Africa; jacks of all trades in the Solomon Islands; timber merchants on Zanzibar’ coffee farmers in Kenya; and King Leopold’s footmen in Congo. This collection reveals narratives of the colonial era that are often ignored or obscured by the national histories of former colonial powers. It charts the entrepreneurial routes chosen by various Norwegians and the places they ventured, while demonstrating the importance of recognizing the complicity of such “non-colonial colonials” for understanding the complexity of colonial history.
Navigating Colonial Orders
Author: Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1782385401
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Norwegians in colonial Africa and Oceania had varying aspirations and adapted in different ways to changing social, political and geographical circumstances in foreign, colonial settings. They included Norwegian shipowners, captains, and diplomats; traders and whalers along the African coast and in Antarctica; large-scale plantation owners in Mozambique and Hawai’i; big business men in South Africa; jacks of all trades in the Solomon Islands; timber merchants on Zanzibar’ coffee farmers in Kenya; and King Leopold’s footmen in Congo. This collection reveals narratives of the colonial era that are often ignored or obscured by the national histories of former colonial powers. It charts the entrepreneurial routes chosen by various Norwegians and the places they ventured, while demonstrating the importance of recognizing the complicity of such “non-colonial colonials” for understanding the complexity of colonial history.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1782385401
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Norwegians in colonial Africa and Oceania had varying aspirations and adapted in different ways to changing social, political and geographical circumstances in foreign, colonial settings. They included Norwegian shipowners, captains, and diplomats; traders and whalers along the African coast and in Antarctica; large-scale plantation owners in Mozambique and Hawai’i; big business men in South Africa; jacks of all trades in the Solomon Islands; timber merchants on Zanzibar’ coffee farmers in Kenya; and King Leopold’s footmen in Congo. This collection reveals narratives of the colonial era that are often ignored or obscured by the national histories of former colonial powers. It charts the entrepreneurial routes chosen by various Norwegians and the places they ventured, while demonstrating the importance of recognizing the complicity of such “non-colonial colonials” for understanding the complexity of colonial history.
Violence and Colonial Order
Author: Martin Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521768411
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
A striking new interpretation of colonial policing and political violence in three empires between the two world wars.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521768411
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
A striking new interpretation of colonial policing and political violence in three empires between the two world wars.
Colonial South Africa:Origins Racial Order
Author: Tim Keegan
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0718501349
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
It is a story that is strong in notable events -slave emancipation, the arrival of the 1820 British settlers, a series of frontier wars, the Great Trek of Boer emigrants - as well as in striking personalities, among them Dr John Philip, Andries Stockenstrom, John Fairbairn, Moshoeshoe and Sir Harry Smith. In Keegan's pages these familiar historical landmarks and characters emerge in entirely novel ways, the subject of fresh interpretations and original insights.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0718501349
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
It is a story that is strong in notable events -slave emancipation, the arrival of the 1820 British settlers, a series of frontier wars, the Great Trek of Boer emigrants - as well as in striking personalities, among them Dr John Philip, Andries Stockenstrom, John Fairbairn, Moshoeshoe and Sir Harry Smith. In Keegan's pages these familiar historical landmarks and characters emerge in entirely novel ways, the subject of fresh interpretations and original insights.
White Supremacy and Black Resistance in Pre-industrial South Africa
Author: Clifton C. Crais
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521404792
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the emergence of a racially divided society in pre-industrial Southern Africa.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521404792
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the emergence of a racially divided society in pre-industrial Southern Africa.
Colonial Citizens
Author: Elizabeth Thompson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231106603
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
First, a colonial welfare state emerged by World War II that recognized social rights of citizens to health, education, and labor protection.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231106603
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
First, a colonial welfare state emerged by World War II that recognized social rights of citizens to health, education, and labor protection.
Creating an Early Colonial Order
Author: Manu Sehgal
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780190992170
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
By the end of the eighteenth century, war-making and the East India Company's violent conquest of South Asia created an 'early colonial order'. This distinctive early colonial order comprised of a political economy of conquest marked by repeated financial crises, a new regime of laws, ideological innovations justifying expensive warfare, changing conceptions of sovereignty, and the privileging of military over civilian power. This early colonial order was followed by an authoritarian, militarily dominant British Raj and continues to profoundly influence postcolonial South Asian polities. By drawing on a diverse range of archival documents and later studies, Manu Sehgal makes an important intervention in historiographical debates about eighteenth-century South Asian history and the centrality of violence to colonial rule.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780190992170
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
By the end of the eighteenth century, war-making and the East India Company's violent conquest of South Asia created an 'early colonial order'. This distinctive early colonial order comprised of a political economy of conquest marked by repeated financial crises, a new regime of laws, ideological innovations justifying expensive warfare, changing conceptions of sovereignty, and the privileging of military over civilian power. This early colonial order was followed by an authoritarian, militarily dominant British Raj and continues to profoundly influence postcolonial South Asian polities. By drawing on a diverse range of archival documents and later studies, Manu Sehgal makes an important intervention in historiographical debates about eighteenth-century South Asian history and the centrality of violence to colonial rule.
Law and Colonial Cultures
Author: Lauren Benton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521009263
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Argues that institutions and culture serve as important elements of international legal order.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521009263
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Argues that institutions and culture serve as important elements of international legal order.
Contesting French West Africa
Author: Harry Gamble
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149622597X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Harry Gamble examines the controversies of political and educational reform in French West Africa from the early to mid-twentieth century.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149622597X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Harry Gamble examines the controversies of political and educational reform in French West Africa from the early to mid-twentieth century.
Empires of the Mind
Author: Robert Gildea
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110715958X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Prize-winning historian Robert Gildea dissects the legacy of empire for the former colonial powers and their subjects.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110715958X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Prize-winning historian Robert Gildea dissects the legacy of empire for the former colonial powers and their subjects.
Colonial Adventures
Author: Serge Dauchy
Publisher: Legal History Library
ISBN: 9789004442931
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
"Colonial Adventures: Commercial Law and Practice in the Making addresses the question how and to what extend the development of commercial law and practice, from Ancient Greece to the colonial empires of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, were indebted to colonial expansion and maritime trade. Illustrated by experiences in Ancient Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and Australia, the book examines how colonial powers consciously or not reshaped the law in order to foster the prosperity of homeland manufacturers and entrepreneurs or how local authorities and settlers brought the transplanted law in line with the colonial objectives and the local constraints amid shifting economic, commercial and political realities. Contributors are: Alain Clément, Alexander Claver, Oscar Cruz-Barney, Bas De Roo, Paul du Plessis, Bernard Durand, David Gilles, Petra Mahy, David Mirhady, M. C. Mirow, Luigi Nuzzo, Phillip Lipton, Umakanth Varottil, Jakob Zollmann"--
Publisher: Legal History Library
ISBN: 9789004442931
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
"Colonial Adventures: Commercial Law and Practice in the Making addresses the question how and to what extend the development of commercial law and practice, from Ancient Greece to the colonial empires of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, were indebted to colonial expansion and maritime trade. Illustrated by experiences in Ancient Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and Australia, the book examines how colonial powers consciously or not reshaped the law in order to foster the prosperity of homeland manufacturers and entrepreneurs or how local authorities and settlers brought the transplanted law in line with the colonial objectives and the local constraints amid shifting economic, commercial and political realities. Contributors are: Alain Clément, Alexander Claver, Oscar Cruz-Barney, Bas De Roo, Paul du Plessis, Bernard Durand, David Gilles, Petra Mahy, David Mirhady, M. C. Mirow, Luigi Nuzzo, Phillip Lipton, Umakanth Varottil, Jakob Zollmann"--