Navigating Colonial Orders

Norwegian Entrepreneurship in Africa and Oceania
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78238-539-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 414 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kjerland, Kirsten Alsaker

Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Australische und Pazifische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface

Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland

List of Contributors

Introduction: Norwegians Navigating Colonial Orders in Africa and Oceania: an Introduction

Bjørn Enge Bertelsen

Chapter 1. Swedish and Norwegian Shipping to South Africa 1850-1914

Knut M. Nygaard

Chapter 2. Long Haul Tramp Trade and Norwegian Sailing Ships in
Africa, Australia and the Pacific, 1850-1920: Captain Haave’s Voyages

Gustav Sætra

Chapter 3. Liminal but Omnipotent: Thesen & Co. – Norwegian Migrants in the Cape Colony

Erlend Eidsvik

Chapter 4. Business Communication in Colonial Times: The Norway-East Africa Trading Company in Zanzibar 1895-1925

Anne K. Bang

Chapter 5.
‘Three Black Labourers Did the Job of Two Whites.’ African Labourers in Modern Norwegian Whaling

Dag Ingemar Børresen

Chapter 6. The Consular Affairs Issue and Colonialism

Svein Ivar Angell

Chapter 7. Norwegian Shipping and Landfall in the South Sea in the Age of Sail

Edvard Hviding

Chapter 8. Adventurous Adaptability in the South Sea: Norwegians in ‘the Terrible Solomons’, ca. 1870-1930

Edvard Hviding

Chapter 9. Norwegians in the Cook Islands: The legacy of Captain Reinert G. Jonassen (1866-1915) – Trader, Musician, Navigator, Diplomat and Good Samaritan

Jon Tikivanotau Michael Jonassen

Chapter 10. From Adventure to Industry and Nation-making: The History of a Norwegian Sugar Plantation in Hawai‘i

Knut M. Rio

Chapter 11. Scandinavians in Colonial Trading Companies and Capital-intensive Networks: The Case of Christian Thams

Elsa Reiersen

Chapter 12. Colonialism in Norwegian and Portuguese: The Plantation Madal in Mozambique

Bjørn Enge Bertelsen

Chapter 13. Norwegian Investors and Their Agents in Colonial Kenya

Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland

Chapter 14. Scandinavian Agents and Entrepreneurs in the Scramble for Ethnographica during Colonial Expansion in the Congo

Espen Wæhle

Afterword

Peter Vale

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge
Bjørn Enge Bertelsen is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. His articles have appeared in Journal of Southern African Studies, Social Analysis, Anthropology Today, and Urban Studies. He is the author of Violent Becomings: State Formation, Culture and Power in Mozambique (Berghahn Books, 2015, Open Access) and co-editor of Crisis of the State: War and Social Upheaval with Bruce Kapferer (Berghahn Books, 2009).

Kjerland, Kirsten Alsaker
Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland is a historian with UiB Global at the University of Bergen. Beginning in 1999, she was part of a team of historians writing a history of Norwegian development aid, published in three volumes in 2003. She initiated the research project “In the Wake of Colonialism” and is the author of Nordmenn i det koloniale Kenya (Spartacus, 2010) and co-editor, with Knut Mikjel Rio, of Kolonitid: Nordmenn på eventyr og big business i Afrika og Stillehavet (Scandinavian Academic Press, 2009).

Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland is a historian with UiB Global at the University of Bergen. Beginning in 1999, she was part of a team of historians writing a history of Norwegian development aid, published in three volumes in 2003. She initiated the research project “In the Wake of Colonialism” and is the author of Nordmenn i det koloniale Kenya (Spartacus, 2010) and co-editor, with Knut Mikjel Rio, of Kolonitid: Nordmenn på eventyr og big business i Afrika og Stillehavet (Scandinavian Academic Press, 2009).