The colonisation of time : ritual, routine and resistance in the British Empire
Nanni, GiordanoAuthor
Manchester : Manchester University Press,
2012.
A highly original and long overdue examination of the ways that Western European and specifically British concepts and rituals of time were imposed on other cultures as a fundamental component of colonisation during the 19th century. Based on a wealth of primary sources, it explores the intimate relationship between the colonisation of time and space in two British settler-colonies (Victoria, Australia and the Cape Colony, South Africa) and its instrumental role in the exportation of Christianity, capitalism, and modernity, thus adding new depth to our understanding of imperial power and of the ways in which it was exercised and limited.
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A highly original and long overdue examination of the ways that Western European and specifically British concepts and rituals of time were imposed on other cultures as a fundamental component of colonisation during the 19th century. Based on a wealth of primary sources, it explores the intimate relationship between the colonisation of time and space in two British settler-colonies (Victoria, Australia and the Cape Colony, South Africa) and its instrumental role in the exportation of Christianity, capitalism, and modernity, thus adding new depth to our understanding of imperial power and of the ways in which it was exercised and limited.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Clocks, Sabbaths and seven-day weeks: the forging of European temporal identities -- Terra sine tempore: colonial constructions of 'Aboriginal time' -- Cultural curfews: the contestation of time in settler-colonial Victoria -- 'The moons are always out of order': colonial constructions of 'African time' -- Empire of the seventh day: time and the Sabbath beyond the Cape frontiers -- Lovedale: missionary schools and the reform of 'African time' -- Conclusion: from colonisation to globalisation.
Imperialism
Indigenous peoples
Indigenous peoples
Time perception
Time perception
British
British
Clocks and watches
Sunday
Regions & Countries - Europe
Sociology & Social History
History & Archaeology
Social Sciences
Great Britain
Social Change