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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460069303321

Titolo

Navigating colonial orders : Norwegian entrepreneurship in Africa and Oceania / / edited by Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78238-540-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (413 p.)

Disciplina

338/.04089398206

Soggetti

Colonies - Africa - Economic conditions

Colonies - Oceania - Economic conditions

Norwegians - Africa - History

Norwegians - Oceania - History

Entrepreneurship - Africa - History

Entrepreneurship - Oceania - History

Electronic books.

Norway Foreign economic relations Africa

Norway Foreign economic relations Oceania

Africa Foreign economic relations Norway

Oceania Foreign economic relations Norway

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Maps""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction � Norwegians Navigating Colonial Orders in Africa and Oceania""; ""Chapter 1 � Interconnecting the British Empire: Swedish and Norwegian Shipping to South Africa, 1850�1914""; ""Chapter 2 � Long-Haul Tramp Trade and Norwegian Sailing Ships in Africa, Australia and the Pacific, 1850�1920: Captain Haave's Voyages""; ""Chapter 3 � Liminal but Omnipotent: Thesen & Co. � Norwegian Migrants in the Cape Colony""

""Chapter 4 � Business Communication in Colonial Times: The Norway-East Africa Trading Company in Zanzibar, 1895�1925""""



Chapter 5 � 'Three Black Labourers Did the Job of Two Whites': African Labourers in Modern Norwegian Whaling""; ""Chapter 6 � The Consular Affairs Issue and Colonialism""; ""Chapter 7 � Norwegian Shipping and Landfall in the South Sea in the Age of Sail""; ""Chapter 8 � Adventurous Adaptability in the South Sea: Norwegians in 'the Terrible Solomons', ca. 1870�1930""

""Chapter 9 � Norwegians in the Cook Islands: The Legacy of Captain Reinert G. Jonassen (1866�1915)""""Chapter 10 � From Adventure to Industry and Nation Making: The History of a Norwegian Sugar Plantation in Hawai'i""; ""Chapter 11 � Scandinavians in Colonial Trading Companies and Capital-Intensive Networks: The Case of Christian Thams""; ""Chapter 12 � Colonialism in Norwegian and Portuguese: Madal in Mozambique""; ""Chapter 13 � Norwegian Investors and Their Agents in Colonial Kenya""

""Chapter 14 � Scandinavian Agents and Entrepreneurs in the Scramble for Ethnographica during Colonial Expansion in the Congo""""Afterword � Her og na (Here and Now): History and the Idea of Globalization""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

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