Cooperation and Empire
Local Realities of Global Processes
1st Edition
Published on 1. August 2017
Book
Hardback
392 pages
978-1-78533-609-6 (ISBN)
Description
While the study of "indigenous intermediaries" is today the focus of some of the most interesting research in the historiography of colonialism, its roots extend back to at least the 1970s. The contributions to this volume revisit Ronald E. Robinson's theory of collaboration in a range of historical contexts by melding it with theoretical perspectives derived from postcolonial studies and transnational history. In case studies ranging globally over the course of four centuries, these essays offer nuanced explorations of the varied, complex interactions between imperial and local actors, with particular attention to those shifting and ambivalent roles that transcend simple binaries of colonizer and colonized.
Reviews / Votes
"The editors of this stimulating volume should be congratulated for bringing together such a wide range of topics without a loss of focus. This book will surely serve as food for thought for anyone interested in this important topic." * Comparativ"Provocative and original, these contributions challenge us to rethink the basic tenets of colonial governance. The editors avoid the pitfall common to numerous collections: atomized chapters that fail to relate to each other. Here, the contributions are strongly connected by the issue of local or indigenous co-operation in imperial conquest, administration and fiscal exaction." * Martin Thomas, University of Exeter
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
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Library binding
Illustrations
4 Illustrations; 4 Tables, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
720 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78533-609-6 (9781785336096)
DOI
10.3167/9781785336096
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Tanja Buehrer | Flavio Eichmann | Stig Foerster
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Local Realities of Global Processes
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Tanja Buehrer | Flavio Eichmann | Stig Foerster
Cooperation and Empire
Local Realities of Global Processes
E-Book
08/2017
1st Edition
Berghahn Books
€27.49
Available for download
Persons
Tanja Buehrer is Assistant Professor at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and teaches European and Global History.
Content
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction: Cooperation and Empire. Local Realities of Global Processes?
Tanja Buehrer, Flavio Eichmann, Stig Foerster and Benedikt Stuchtey
PART I: CASE STUDIES
Chapter 1. ?Caciques: Indigenous Rulers and the Colonial Regime in Yucatan in the Sixteenth Century?
Ute Schueren
Chapter 2. ?Connecting Worlds: Women as Intermediaries in the Portuguese Overseas Empire, 1500-1600
?Amelia Polonia and Rosa Capelao
Chapter 3. ?Cooperation and Cultural Adaption: British Diplomats at the Court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, c. 1779-1815?
Tanja Buehrer
Chapter 4. ?Local Cooperation in a Subversive Colony: Martinique 1802-09?
Flavio Eichmann
Chapter 5?. Uncle Toms and Kupapas: 'Collaboration' versus Alliance in a Nineteenth-Century New Zealand Context
?Vincent O'Malley
Chapter 6?. 'Collaboration' or Sabotage? The Settlers in German Southwest Africa between Colonial State and Indigenous Polities?
Matthias Haeussler
Chapter 7?. Chieftaincy as a Political Resource in the German Colony of Cameroon, 1884-1916?
Ulrike Schaper
Chapter 8?. Cooperation at its Limits: Re-Reading the British Constitution in South Africa?
Charles V. Reed
Chapter 9. ?Key Alliance? 'Native Guards' and European Administrators in Sub-Saharan Africa from a Comparative Perspective (1918-59)?
Alexander Keese
Chapter 10?. The Cooperation between the British and Faisal I of Iraq (1921-32): Evolution of a Romance
?Myriam Yakoubi
Chapter 11?. Collaborating on Unequal Terms: Cross-Cultural Co-operation and Educational Work in Colonial Sudan, 1934-56?
Iris Seri-Hersch
PART II: CONCLUDING ESSAYS
Chapter 12. ?Indigenous Agents of Colonial Rule in Africa and India: Defining the Colonial State through its Secondary Bureaucracy
?Ralph A. Austen
Chapter 13?. Indigenous Cooperation: Foundation of Colonial Empires or New Historical Myth?
?Wolfgang Reinhard
Index
Introduction: Cooperation and Empire. Local Realities of Global Processes?
Tanja Buehrer, Flavio Eichmann, Stig Foerster and Benedikt Stuchtey
PART I: CASE STUDIES
Chapter 1. ?Caciques: Indigenous Rulers and the Colonial Regime in Yucatan in the Sixteenth Century?
Ute Schueren
Chapter 2. ?Connecting Worlds: Women as Intermediaries in the Portuguese Overseas Empire, 1500-1600
?Amelia Polonia and Rosa Capelao
Chapter 3. ?Cooperation and Cultural Adaption: British Diplomats at the Court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, c. 1779-1815?
Tanja Buehrer
Chapter 4. ?Local Cooperation in a Subversive Colony: Martinique 1802-09?
Flavio Eichmann
Chapter 5?. Uncle Toms and Kupapas: 'Collaboration' versus Alliance in a Nineteenth-Century New Zealand Context
?Vincent O'Malley
Chapter 6?. 'Collaboration' or Sabotage? The Settlers in German Southwest Africa between Colonial State and Indigenous Polities?
Matthias Haeussler
Chapter 7?. Chieftaincy as a Political Resource in the German Colony of Cameroon, 1884-1916?
Ulrike Schaper
Chapter 8?. Cooperation at its Limits: Re-Reading the British Constitution in South Africa?
Charles V. Reed
Chapter 9. ?Key Alliance? 'Native Guards' and European Administrators in Sub-Saharan Africa from a Comparative Perspective (1918-59)?
Alexander Keese
Chapter 10?. The Cooperation between the British and Faisal I of Iraq (1921-32): Evolution of a Romance
?Myriam Yakoubi
Chapter 11?. Collaborating on Unequal Terms: Cross-Cultural Co-operation and Educational Work in Colonial Sudan, 1934-56?
Iris Seri-Hersch
PART II: CONCLUDING ESSAYS
Chapter 12. ?Indigenous Agents of Colonial Rule in Africa and India: Defining the Colonial State through its Secondary Bureaucracy
?Ralph A. Austen
Chapter 13?. Indigenous Cooperation: Foundation of Colonial Empires or New Historical Myth?
?Wolfgang Reinhard
Index