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Navigating Colonial Orders : Norwegian Entrepreneurship in Africa and Oceania / ed. by Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (414 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781782385394
  • 9781782385400
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338/.04089398206 23
LOC classification:
  • HF1566.5.A35 N38 2014
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Maps -- Preface -- Introduction NORWEGIANS NAVIGATING COLONIAL ORDERS IN AFRICA AND OCEANIA -- 1 INTERCONNECTING THE BRITISH EMPIRE Swedish and Norwegian Shipping to South Africa, 1850–1914 -- 2 LONG-HAUL TRAMP TRADE AND NORWEGIAN SAILING SHIPS IN AFRICA, AUSTRALIA AND THE PACIFIC, 1850–1920 Captain Haave’s Voyages -- 3 LIMINAL BUT OMNIPOTENT Thesen & Co. – Norwegian Migrants in the Cape Colony -- 4 BUSINESS COMMUNICATION IN COLONIAL TIMES The Norway-East Africa Trading Company in Zanzibar, 1895–1925 -- 5 ‘THREE BLACK LABOURERS DID THE JOB OF TWO WHITES’ African Labourers in Modern Norwegian Whaling -- 6 THE CONSULAR AFFAIRS ISSUE AND COLONIALISM -- 7 NORWEGIAN SHIPPING AND LANDFALL IN THE SOUTH SEA IN THE AGE OF SAIL -- 8 ADVENTUROUS ADAPTABILITY IN THE SOUTH SEA Norwegians in ‘the Terrible Solomons’, ca. 1870–1930 -- 9 NORWEGIANS IN THE COOK ISLANDS The Legacy of Captain Reinert G. Jonassen (1866–1915) -- 10 FROM ADVENTURE TO INDUSTRY AND NATION MAKING The History of a Norwegian Sugar Plantation in Hawai’i -- 11 SCANDINAVIANS IN COLONIAL TRADING COMPANIES AND CAPITAL-INTENSIVE NETWORKS The Case of Christian Thams -- 12 COLONIALISM IN NORWEGIAN AND PORTUGUESE Madal in Mozambique -- 13 NORWEGIAN INVESTORS AND THEIR AGENTS IN COLONIAL KENYA -- 14 SCANDINAVIAN AGENTS AND ENTREPRENEURS IN THE SCRAMBLE FOR ETHNOGRAPHICA DURING COLONIAL EXPANSION IN THE CONGO -- Afterword HER OG NÅ (HERE AND NOW) History and the Idea of Globalization -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Maps -- Preface -- Introduction NORWEGIANS NAVIGATING COLONIAL ORDERS IN AFRICA AND OCEANIA -- 1 INTERCONNECTING THE BRITISH EMPIRE Swedish and Norwegian Shipping to South Africa, 1850–1914 -- 2 LONG-HAUL TRAMP TRADE AND NORWEGIAN SAILING SHIPS IN AFRICA, AUSTRALIA AND THE PACIFIC, 1850–1920 Captain Haave’s Voyages -- 3 LIMINAL BUT OMNIPOTENT Thesen & Co. – Norwegian Migrants in the Cape Colony -- 4 BUSINESS COMMUNICATION IN COLONIAL TIMES The Norway-East Africa Trading Company in Zanzibar, 1895–1925 -- 5 ‘THREE BLACK LABOURERS DID THE JOB OF TWO WHITES’ African Labourers in Modern Norwegian Whaling -- 6 THE CONSULAR AFFAIRS ISSUE AND COLONIALISM -- 7 NORWEGIAN SHIPPING AND LANDFALL IN THE SOUTH SEA IN THE AGE OF SAIL -- 8 ADVENTUROUS ADAPTABILITY IN THE SOUTH SEA Norwegians in ‘the Terrible Solomons’, ca. 1870–1930 -- 9 NORWEGIANS IN THE COOK ISLANDS The Legacy of Captain Reinert G. Jonassen (1866–1915) -- 10 FROM ADVENTURE TO INDUSTRY AND NATION MAKING The History of a Norwegian Sugar Plantation in Hawai’i -- 11 SCANDINAVIANS IN COLONIAL TRADING COMPANIES AND CAPITAL-INTENSIVE NETWORKS The Case of Christian Thams -- 12 COLONIALISM IN NORWEGIAN AND PORTUGUESE Madal in Mozambique -- 13 NORWEGIAN INVESTORS AND THEIR AGENTS IN COLONIAL KENYA -- 14 SCANDINAVIAN AGENTS AND ENTREPRENEURS IN THE SCRAMBLE FOR ETHNOGRAPHICA DURING COLONIAL EXPANSION IN THE CONGO -- Afterword HER OG NÅ (HERE AND NOW) History and the Idea of Globalization -- Contributors -- Index

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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.

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