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. -- .
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. -- .
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
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
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