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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. This collection reveals narratives of the colonial era that are often ignored or obscured by the national histories of former colonial powers.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland List of Contributors
Introduction: Norwegians Navigating Colonial Orders in Africa and Oceania: an Introduction
Bjørn Enge Bertelsen Chapter 1. Swedish and Norwegian Shipping to South Africa 1850-1914
Knut M. Nygaard Chapter 2. Long Haul Tramp Trade and Norwegian Sailing Ships in ¿Africa, Australia and the Pacific, 1850-1920: Captain Haave's Voyages
Gustav Sætra Chapter 3. Liminal but Omnipotent: Thesen & Co. - Norwegian Migrants in the Cape Colony
Erlend Eidsvik Chapter 4. Business Communication in Colonial Times: The Norway-East Africa Trading Company in Zanzibar 1895-1925
Anne K. Bang Chapter 5. ¿'Three Black Labourers Did the Job of Two Whites.' African Labourers in Modern Norwegian Whaling
Dag Ingemar Børresen Chapter 6. The Consular Affairs Issue and Colonialism
Svein Ivar Angell Chapter 7. Norwegian Shipping and Landfall in the South Sea in the Age of Sail
Edvard Hviding Chapter 8. Adventurous Adaptability in the South Sea: Norwegians in 'the Terrible Solomons', ca. 1870-1930
Edvard Hviding Chapter 9. Norwegians in the Cook Islands: The legacy of Captain Reinert G. Jonassen (1866-1915) - Trader, Musician, Navigator, Diplomat and Good Samaritan
Jon Tikivanotau Michael Jonassen Chapter 10. From Adventure to Industry and Nation-making: The History of a Norwegian Sugar Plantation in Hawai'i
Knut M. Rio Chapter 11. Scandinavians in Colonial Trading Companies and Capital-intensive Networks: The Case of Christian Thams
Elsa Reiersen Chapter 12. Colonialism in Norwegian and Portuguese: The Plantation Madal in Mozambique
Bjørn Enge Bertelsen Chapter 13. Norwegian Investors and Their Agents in Colonial Kenya
Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland Chapter 14. Scandinavian Agents and Entrepreneurs in the Scramble for Ethnographica during Colonial Expansion in the Congo
Espen Wæhle Afterword Peter Vale Index
About the author
Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland is a historian with UiB Global at the University of Bergen. Beginning in 1999, she was part of a team of historians writing a history of Norwegian development aid, published in three volumes in 2003. She initiated the research project “In the Wake of Colonialism” and is the author of Nordmenn i det koloniale Kenya (Spartacus, 2010) and co-editor, with Knut Mikjel Rio, of Kolonitid: Nordmenn på eventyr og big business i Afrika og Stillehavet (Scandinavian Academic Press, 2009).
Bjørn Enge Bertelsen is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. His articles have appeared in Journal of Southern African Studies, Social Analysis, Anthropology Today, and Urban Studies. He is the author of Violent Becomings: State Formation, Culture and Power in Mozambique (Berghahn Books, 2015, Open Access) and co-editor of Crisis of the State: War and Social Upheaval with Bruce Kapferer (Berghahn Books, 2009).
Summary
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. This collection reveals narratives of the colonial era that are often ignored or obscured by the national histories of former colonial powers.
