Hege Dividing Dar

Race, Space, and Colonial Construction in German Occupied Daressalam, 1850–1920
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-11-138296-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 10, 263 Seiten

Reihe: Africa in Global HistoryISSN

How did a diversity of intermediaries shape not only the everyday divisions but also the dynamics and growth of the colonial city? This is the central question of . Focusing on South Asian elites, Askari soldiers and police, and a minority of European settlers, the book illustrates how three continents converged to produce the colonial city in East Africa. shows how negotiations, ranging from contestation to anti-colonial resistance, derailed German colonial plans to transform African "cosmopolitanism" into neatly divided races and city spaces.

offers a novel approach to colonial urban history. In contrast to the traditional focus on top-down urban planning, knowledge production, and municipal politics, the book builds on a growing body of literature on colonial intermediaries and urbanism "from the middle" to address questions of historical agency, the construction of sociocultural hierarchies, and the mutations of African urbanism under the forces of German colonial occupation.

Zielgruppe

Historiker/-innen mit den Schwerpunkten Afrika, deutscher Kolonia / Historians of Africa, German Colonialism, and Urbanism

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hege, Patrick Christopher

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick C. Hege, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Ethnologisches Museum, Deutschland.

Patrick C. Hege, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Ethnological Museum Berlin, Germany.