Navigating Colonial Orders: Norwegian Entrepreneurship in Africa and OceaniaKirsten Alsaker Kjerland, Bjørn Enge Bertelsen 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. |
What people are saying - Write a review
Contents
1 | |
38 | |
54 | |
79 | |
106 | |
127 | |
Chapter 6 The Consular Affairs Issue and Colonialism | 153 |
Chapter 7 Norwegian Shipping and Landfall in the South Sea in the Age of Sail | 173 |
The History of a Norwegian Sugar Plantation in Hawaii | 240 |
The Case of Christian Thams | 267 |
Madal in Mozambique | 291 |
Chapter 13 Norwegian Investors and Their Agents in Colonial Kenya | 321 |
Chapter 14 Scandinavian Agents and Entrepreneurs in the Scramble for Ethnographica during Colonial Expansion in the Congo | 339 |
History and the Idea of Globalization | 368 |
Contributors | 374 |
Index | 378 |
Norwegians in the Terrible Solomons ca 18701930 | 187 |
The Legacy of Captain Reinert G Jonassen 18661915 | 219 |