{"product_id":"navigating-colonial-orders-norwegian-entrepreneurship-in-africa-and-oceania-9781782385394","title":"Navigating Colonial Orders: Norwegian","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tNorwegians 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“\u003c\/em\u003eNavigating Colonial Orders \u003cem\u003eprovides a novel prism in which to examine the informal imperial influence of ‘noncolonial colonials’, both European and non-European, who thrived in foreign imperial systems. While the work resists the generalising ‘shade’ of globalisation, the contributions illuminate the global nature of expanding social, economic and political exchanges that shape contemporary core–periphery interaction. Norwegian entrepreneurs in Africa and the Pacific, utilising expertise in shipping, management, whaling and timber, flourished in an environment of rapid industrialisation and vast economic exploitation.\u003c\/em\u003e Navigating Colonial Orders \u003cem\u003eproves that Norwegians were ‘integral to and complicit in’ the feeding frenzy of European colonial expansion.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e· Journal of Pacific History\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This collection is an extremely informative and valuable addition to the field of Scandinavian colonialism studies and colonial history of Africa and the South Pacific illustrating the multiform and complex nature of the colonial systems.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e· Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This fascinating and deeply engaging volume makes a unique contribution not only to the study of Norwegian political and economic history from 1850 to 1950 but also to the interdisciplinary field of Postcolonial Studies. Through original and ground-breaking research, the contributors question the perception that Norway’s active role in the world at large came into being only in the modern era as a promoter of world peace and human rights… A counter-intuitive scrutiny of such popular assumptions through rigorous research – as the contributors to this volume have done – is of tremendous relevance to broader critical interrogations of the overlapping concepts of Nordic norm entrepreneurship and Nordic exceptionalism.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e· Scandinavian Journal of History\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“\u003c\/em\u003eNavigating Colonial Orders i\u003cem\u003es an extremely valuable record of geographically extensive and variously troubled and profitable Norwegian overseas adventures, enterprise and community from 1850 to 1950. Collated in a single, compelling collection, a series of painstakingly researched chapters by thirteen accomplished scholars examines Norwegian commerce, shipping, whaling, fishing, farming and forestry in Africa and the Pacific Islands….The presentations draw from an impressive range of primary archival material and secondary library material, and on the expertise of anthropologists, historians, a geographer and a political scientist.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e· Gordon Pirie\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Cape Town\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tPreface\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKirsten Alsaker Kjerland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tList of Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction: \u003c\/strong\u003eNorwegians Navigating Colonial Orders in Africa and Oceania: an Introduction\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBjørn Enge Bertelsen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/strong\u003eSwedish and Norwegian Shipping to South Africa 1850-1914\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKnut M. Nygaard\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Long Haul Tramp Trade and Norwegian Sailing Ships in \u2028Africa, Australia and the Pacific, 1850-1920: Captain Haave’s Voyages\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eGustav Sætra\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. \u003c\/strong\u003eLiminal but Omnipotent: Thesen \u0026amp; Co. – Norwegian Migrants in the Cape Colony\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eErlend Eidsvik\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4. \u003c\/strong\u003eBusiness Communication in Colonial Times: The Norway-East Africa Trading Company in Zanzibar 1895-1925\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAnne K. Bang\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u2028‘Three Black Labourers Did the Job of Two Whites.’ African Labourers in Modern Norwegian Whaling\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDag Ingemar Børresen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Consular Affairs Issue and Colonialism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSvein Ivar Angell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Norwegian Shipping and Landfall in the South Sea in the Age of Sail\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eEdvard Hviding\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8. \u003c\/strong\u003eAdventurous Adaptability in the South Sea: Norwegians in ‘the Terrible Solomons’, ca. 1870-1930\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eEdvard Hviding\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9. \u003c\/strong\u003eNorwegians in the Cook Islands: The legacy of Captain Reinert G. Jonassen (1866-1915) – Trader, Musician, Navigator, Diplomat and Good Samaritan\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJon Tikivanotau Michael Jonassen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e From Adventure to Industry and Nation-making: The History of a Norwegian Sugar Plantation in Hawai‘i\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKnut M. Rio\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e Scandinavians in Colonial Trading Companies and Capital-intensive Networks: The Case of Christian Thams\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eElsa Reiersen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e Colonialism in Norwegian and Portuguese: The Plantation Madal in Mozambique\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBjørn Enge Bertelsen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/strong\u003e Norwegian Investors and Their Agents in Colonial Kenya\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKirsten Alsaker Kjerland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 14. \u003c\/strong\u003eScandinavian Agents and Entrepreneurs in the Scramble for Ethnographica during Colonial Expansion in the Congo\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eEspen Wæhle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eAfterword\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePeter Vale\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042218475863,"sku":"9781782385394","price":96.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/navigating-colonial-orders-norwegian-entrepreneurship-in-africa-and-oceania-9781782385394","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}