Human porterage and colonial state formation in German East Africa, 1880s-1914 : tensions of transport / / Andreas Greiner

• Autore: Greiner Andreas
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (283 pages)
• Disciplina: 380.5
• Soggetto topico: Transportation; Transportation - Germany; Porters
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- A Note on Spelling, Currencies, and Measurements -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Human Porterage and Colonial State Formation in German East Africa, 1880s-1914 -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Tensions of Transport -- The "Porter Question" and the Tensions Within -- State, Mobility, and Caravan Transport: A Research Agenda -- Historical Context: The Long-Distance Caravan Economy -- Sources and Chapter Outline -- Chapter 2: Shouldering the State: Violence, Coercion, and Professionalism in State-Organized Transport -- The Colonization of Transport -- Military Porterage During German Conquest, 1889-1893 -- Early Interventions into the Labor Market -- A Bifurcated Recruitment System -- Making Transport Calculable -- Spaces of Violence -- Chapter 3: Facing an Established Business: The Self-Limitation of Colonial Rule -- State-Making and the Ambiguity of Caravan Transport, c. 1890 -- Colonial Rule and the Balance of Interests -- The Codification of Caravan Mobility -- Challenges from the Inside and Outside -- Trade Slump and Outmigration After 1900 -- Chapter 4: Carrying On: Caravan Labor and Legislation in the Colonial Era -- Colonial Capitalism and Porter Labor -- The Casualization of Transport Labor, c. 1900 -- An Economy Not Fully Colonized -- Old and New Forms of Worker Resistance -- Labor Migration and Policymaking in a Trans-colonial Sphere -- Chapter 5: Managing Mobility: The Colonial State as a Gatekeeper of Caravan Travel -- Legal and Spatial Tools of Gatekeeping, 1889-1906 -- Policing Trans-border Mobility -- Health Regimes in the Borderlands -- Chapter 6: Challenging Spatial Relations: The Colonial Quest for New Infrastructures -- Infrastructure in Transition, c. 1890 -- A Growing State Apparatus -- Investment and Divestment in Roads -- Caravan and Railway -- Chapter 7: Epilogue -- Concluding Remarks. ; Glossary -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Bodleian Library, Commonwealth and African Manuscripts, Oxford, United Kingdom (BDL) -- British Library, Endangered Archives Programme, London, United Kingdom (BL) -- Bundesarchiv Abteilung Berlin-Lichterfelde, Germany (BAB) -- Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany (GStA) -- Evangelisch-Lutherisches Missionswerk Leipzig, Halle/Saale, Germany (ELM) -- Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde, Leipzig, Germany (IFL) -- National Archives of the United Kingdom, Kew, United Kingdom (KEW) -- Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, Germany (REM) -- Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium (RMCA) -- Staatsarchiv Hamburg, Germany (StAHH) -- Tanzania National Archives, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (TNA) -- Zanzibar National Archives, Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania (ZNA) -- British Parliamentary Papers -- German Parliamentary Papers -- Annual Reports -- Law Books -- Newspapers and Periodicals -- Books and Articles -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Human Porterage and Colonial State Formation in German East Africa, 1880s-1914
• ISBN: 3-030-89470-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910624312703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.