Cooperation and Empire

Local Realities of Global Processes
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-609-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 722 g

While the study of “indigenous intermediaries” is today the focus of some of the most interesting research in the historiography of colonialism, its roots extend back to at least the 1970s. The contributions to this volume revisit Ronald E. Robinson’s theory of collaboration in a range of historical contexts by melding it with theoretical perspectives derived from postcolonial studies and transnational history. In case studies ranging globally over the course of four centuries, these essays offer nuanced explorations of the varied, complex interactions between imperial and local actors, with particular attention to those shifting and ambivalent roles that transcend simple binaries of colonizer and colonized.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beuhrer, Tanja

Bührer, Tanja

Eichmann, Flavio

Stuchtey, Benedikt

Förster, Stig

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction: Cooperation and Empire. Local Realities of Global Processes

Tanja Bührer, Flavio Eichmann, Stig Förster and Benedikt Stuchtey

PART I: CASE STUDIES

Chapter 1.
Caciques: Indigenous Rulers and the Colonial Regime in Yucatán in the Sixteenth Century

Ute Schüren

Chapter 2.
Connecting Worlds: Women as Intermediaries in the Portuguese Overseas Empire, 1500–1600


Amélia Polónia and Rosa Capelão

Chapter 3.
Cooperation and Cultural Adaption: British Diplomats at the Court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, c. 1779–1815

Tanja Bührer

Chapter 4.
Local Cooperation in a Subversive Colony: Martinique 1802–09

Flavio Eichmann

Chapter 5
. Uncle Toms and Kupapas: ‘Collaboration’ versus Alliance in a Nineteenth-Century New Zealand Context


Vincent O’Malley

Chapter 6
. ‘Collaboration’ or Sabotage? The Settlers in German Southwest Africa between Colonial State and Indigenous Polities

Matthias Häußler

Chapter 7
. Chieftaincy as a Political Resource in the German Colony of Cameroon, 1884–1916

Ulrike Schaper

Chapter 8
. Cooperation at its Limits: Re-Reading the British Constitution in South Africa

Charles V. Reed

Chapter 9.
Key Alliance? ‘Native Guards’ and European Administrators in Sub-Saharan Africa from a Comparative Perspective (1918–59)

Alexander Keese

Chapter 10
. The Cooperation between the British and Faisal I of Iraq (1921–32): Evolution of a Romance


Myriam Yakoubi

Chapter 11
. Collaborating on Unequal Terms: Cross-Cultural Co-operation and Educational Work in Colonial Sudan, 1934–56

Iris Seri-Hersch

PART II: CONCLUDING ESSAYS

Chapter 12.
Indigenous Agents of Colonial Rule in Africa and India: Defining the Colonial State through its Secondary Bureaucracy


Ralph A. Austen

Chapter 13
. Indigenous Cooperation: Foundation of Colonial Empires or New Historical Myth?


Wolfgang Reinhard

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stuchtey, Benedikt
Benedikt Stuchtey is Full Professor at the University of Marburg, Germany, and teaches European and Global History.

Förster, Stig
Stig Förster is Professor Emeritus at the University of Bern, Switzerland, where he taught European and Global History.

Eichmann, Flavio
Flavio Eichmann is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the department of Modern History, University of Bern, Switzerland, and teaches Caribbean, European and Global History.

Bührer, Tanja
Tanja Bührer is Assistant Professor at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and teaches European and Global History.

Stig Förster is Professor Emeritus at the University of Bern, Switzerland, where he taught European and Global History.