Giordano Nanni

The colonisation of time

Ritual, routine and resistance in the British Empire

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book is a highly original and long overdue examination of the ways that European concepts of time were imposed on other cultures as a component of colonisation. It brings together two complex subjects â time and colonialism â in an engaging, non-theoretical and accessible style. -- .

Produktdetails

• Studies in Imperialism
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9780719091292
• ISBN-10: 0719091292
• Artikelnr.: 38477526

Autorenporträt

Giordano Nanni is an Honorary Fellow of the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne.

Inhaltsangabe

General Editor's introduction Introduction 1. Clocks, Sabbaths and
seven-day weeks: The forging of temporal identities 2. Terra sine tempore:
Colonial constructions of 'Aboriginal time' 3. Cultural curfews: The
contestation of time in settler-colonial Victoria 4. 'The moons are always
out of order': Constructions of 'African time' 5. Empire of the seventh
day: Time and the Sabbath beyond the Cape frontiers 6. Lovedale, missionary
schools and the reform of 'African time' 7. Conclusion: From colonisation
to globalisation Select bibliography Index