Cooperation and empire : local realities of global processes / edited by Tanja Buhrer, Flavio Eichmann, Stig Förster, Benedikt Stuchtey.

Format Electronic
PublicationNew York : Berghahn Books, [2017]
Description1 online resource (vii, 384 pages) : illustrations
Supplemental ContentProQuest Ebook Central
Subjects
Colonization--History.
Colonies--History.
Indigenous peoples--Politics and government.

Other author/creatorBührer, Tanja, editor.
Other author/creatorEichmann, Flavio, editor.
Other author/creatorFörster, Stig, editor.
Other author/creatorStuchtey, Benedikt, editor.
Contents Introduction: cooperation and empire: local realities of global processes -- Chapter 1. Caciques: Indigenous ruler and the colonial regime in Yucatán in the sixteenth century -- Chapter 2. Connecting Worlds: women and the intermediaries in Portuguese overseas empire, 1500-1600 -- Chapter 3. Cooperation and cultural adaption: British diplomats at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, c. 1779-1815 -- Chapter 4. Local cooperation in a subversive colony: Martinique 1802-1809 -- Chapter 5. Uncle Toms and Kupapas: 'collaboration' versus alliance in a nineteenth-century New Zealand context -- Chapter 6. 'Collaboration' or sabotage? The settlers in German Southwest Africa between colonial state and Indigenous polities -- Chapter 7. Chieftaincy as a political resource in the German colony of Cameroon, 1884-1916; Chapter 8. Cooperation at its limits: re-reading the British constitution in South Africa -- Chapter 9. Key alliance? 'Native guards' and European administrators in sub-Saharan Africa from a comparative perspective (1918-1959) -- Chapter 10. The cooperation between the British and Faisal I of Iraq (1921-1932): evolution of a romance -- Chapter 11. Collaborating on unequal terms: cross-cultural cooperation and educational work in colonial Sudan, 1934-1956 -- Chapter 12. Indigenous agents of colonial rule in Africa and India: defining the colonial state through its secondary bureaucracy -- Chapter 13. Indigenous cooperation: foundation of colonial empires or new historical myth? -- Index
Abstract 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.-- Provided by Publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionDescription based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed May 9, 2022).
Issued in other formPrint version: Cooperation and empire. New York : Berghahn Books, [2017] 9781785336096
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2017034297
ISBN9781785336102 electronic book
ISBN178533610X electronic book
ISBNhardcover ; alkaline paper
ISBNhardcover ; alkaline paper
Stock number978178533610201 Ingram Content Group
Stock number22573/ctvvx29h6 JSTOR