NAVIGATING COLONIAL ORDERS by Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland (Editor), Bjorn Enge Bertelsen (Editor) ( 9781782385394 )

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NAVIGATING COLONIAL ORDERS
NORWEGIAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN AFRICA AND OCEANIA

By:

Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland (Editor), Bjorn Enge Bertelsen (Editor)

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1782385398

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BERGHAHN BOOKS

Pub. date:

1 November, 2014

Pages:

414

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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. This collection reveals narratives of the colonial era that are often ignored or obscured by the national histories of former colonial powers.

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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.

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