ISBN:
9781782385394
Language:
English
Pages:
XVIII, 395 S.
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Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
DDC:
338/.04089398206
Keywords:
Unternehmer
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Kolonialismus
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Geschichte
;
Handelsgeschichte
;
Norwegen
;
Afrika
;
Ozeanien
;
Colonies Economic conditions
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Colonies Economic conditions
;
Norwegians History
;
Norwegians History
;
Entrepreneurship History
;
Entrepreneurship History
;
Norway Foreign economic relations
;
Norway Foreign economic relations
;
Africa Foreign economic relations
;
Oceania Kjerland
;
Bertelsen
;
Sammelwerk
;
Sammelwerk
Abstract:
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. - Provided by publisher
Abstract:
"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"--Provided by publisher
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Enth. 14 Beitr
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Preface
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Norwegians navigating colonial orders in Africa and Oceania : an introduction
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Swedish and Norwegian shipping to South Africa, 1850-1914
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Long haul tramp trade and Norwegian sailing ships in Africa, Australia and the Pacific, 1850-1920 : Captain Haave's voyages
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Liminal but omnipotent : Thesen & Co. : Norwegian migrants in the Cape Colony
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Business communication in colonial times : the Norway-East Africa Trading Company in Zanzibar, 1895-1925
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"Three Black labourers did the job of two whites" : African labourers in modern Norwegian whaling
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The Consular Affairs issue and colonialism
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Norwegian shipping and landfall in the South Sea in the age of sail
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Adventurous adaptability in the South sea : Norwegians in "the terrible Solomons," ca. 1870-1930
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Norwegians in the cook Islands : the legacy of Captain Reinert G. Jonassen (1866-1915) : trader, musician, navigator, diplomat and good Samaritan
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From adventure to industry and nation-making : the history of a Norwegian sugar plantation in Hawai'i
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Scandinavians in colonial trading companies and capital-intensive networks : the case of Christian Thams
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Colonialism in Norwegian and Portuguese : the Plantation Madal in Mozambique
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Norwegian investors and their agents in colonial Kenya
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Scandinavian agents and entrepreneurs in the scramble for ethnographica during colonial expansion in the Congo
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Afterword
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