ISBN:
9781461462026
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (X, 327 p. 68 illus., 39 illus. in color, digital)
Series Statement:
Contributions to global historical archaeology 37
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Series Statement:
Contributions to global historical archaeology
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Scandinavian colonialism and the rise of modernity
Keywords:
Social sciences
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Humanities
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Anthropology
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Archaeology
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Social Sciences
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Social sciences
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Humanities
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Anthropology
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Archaeology
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Civilization, Modern
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Scandinavia
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Colonies
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Scandinavia
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Antiquities
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Skandinavien
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Nordeuropa
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Kolonie
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Kolonialismus
Abstract:
In Scandinavian Colonialism and the Rise of Modernity: Small Time Agents in a Global Arena, archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians present case studies that focus on the scope and impact of Scandinavian colonial expansion in the North, Africa, Asia and America as well as within Scandinavia itsself. They discuss early modern thinking and theories made valid and developed in early modern Scandinavia that justified and propagated participation in colonial expansion. The volume demonstrates a broad and comprehensive spectrum of archaeological, anthropological and historical research, which engages with a variation of themes relevant for the understanding of Danish and Swedish colonial history from the early 17th century until today. The aim is to add to the on-going global debates on the context of the rise of the modern society and to revitalize the field of early modern studies in Scandinavia, where methodological nationalism still determines many archaeological and historical studies. Through their theoretical commitment, critical outlook and application of postcolonial theories the contributors to this book shed a new light on the processes of establishing and maintaining colonial rule, hybridization and creolization in the sphere of material culture, politics of resistance, and responses to the colonial claims. This volume is a fantastic resource for graduate students and researchers in historical archaeology, Scandinavia, early modern history and anthropology of colonialism
Description / Table of Contents:
Scandinavian Colonialism and the Rise of Modernity; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Contributors; Part I: Charting Scandinavian Colonialism; Chapter 1: Introduction: Situating Scandinavian Colonialism; Introduction; Scandinavian Colonial Ventures: An Overview; Colonial Ideologies; Cultural Consequences of Colonialism; Small Agents in a Global Arena; References; Chapter 2: Colonialism and Swedish History: Unthinkable Connections?; Introduction; Colonialism and Historiographical Possibilities; The Problem with Colonialism; Unique Friendships; The Problem with History; References
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Chapter 3: Black on White: Danish Colonialism, Iceland and the CaribbeanIntroduction; Iceland and the Rest of the World; The "Mulatto": The Saga of Hans Jonatan; Conclusions; Unpublished; References; Chapter 4: From Gammelbo Bruk to Calabar: Swedish Iron in an Expanding Atlantic Economy; Introduction; Iron in the Swedish Economy; The Ironworks; From Gammelbo to Calabar: And Beyond; From Leufsta to Birmingham's Steel Furnaces; The Swedish Economy in an Atlantic Context; Unpublished; References; Chapter 5: Heritage Tourism in Tranquebar: Colonial Nostalgia or Postcolonial Encounter?
Description / Table of Contents:
IntroductionHeritage Tourism: Colonial Nostalgia?; From Danish Postcolonial Narratives to Postcolonial Encounters; Negotiating (Post)colonial Relations; Reengaging with the Colonial History of Tranquebar: Narratives of Anti-conquest; Conclusion; References; Part II: Colonizing the North; Chapter 6: Icelandic Archaeology and the Ambiguities of Colonialism; Iceland, the Colonial Project and Crypto-Colonialism; Was Iceland a Colony?; The Archaeology of Danish Presence; Nationalism, Colonialism and Archaeology; Transcending the Colonial Dichotomy and Crypto-Colonialism; References; Web Sources
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Chapter 7: Circumventing Colonial Policies: Consumption and Family Life as Social Practices in the Early Nineteenth-Century Disko BayPrologue; Consumption and Family Life in the Contact Zones; Colonial Greenland; Archaeological Evidence of Colonial Consumption and Illegal Trade; Colonial Trade Administration in Nineteenth-Century Greenland: Paradoxical Policies and Practice; Intermarriage and Trading Women: Social and Cultural Background; Ane Thorin: The Cooper's Wife; The Material Cultural Encounter: Class, Ethnicity and Transculturation; Epilogue; Unpublished; References
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Chapter 8: Colonial Encounter in Early Modern SápmiIntroduction; Colonial and Saami Education; Conversion of a Saami Youngster; Colonial Education and Saami Resistance; The Voice of the Colonised and the Legacy of Colonial Education; Unpublished; References; Chapter 9: Materialities on the Move: Identity and Material Culture Among the Forest Finns in Seventeenth-Century Sweden and America; Introduction; Ethnicity and Material Culture; The Forest Finns in Sweden; The Creation of Otherness; Tradition and Change Across the Atlantic; Colonising the In-Between; References
Description / Table of Contents:
Part III: Venturing Into the World: Scandinavian Colonies in America, Africa and Asia
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DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4614-6202-6
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