Navigating colonial orders
Subtitle: Norwegian entrepreneurship in Africa and Oceania
By: edited by Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
Publisher: Berghahn
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9781782385394; 9781782385400
Subjects: Foreign economic relations; Colonies; Economic conditions; Norwegians; History; Entrepreneurship
Description: "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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.