The Colonisation of Time: Ritual, Routine and Resistance in the British Empire - Rilegato

Nanni, Giordano

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ISBN 10: 0719082714 ISBN 13: 9780719082719

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2012

Riassunto

The Colonisation of Time is 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 colonization during the nineteenth century. Based on a wealth of primary sources, it explores the intimate relationship between the colonization 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. All those intrigued by the concept of time will find this book of interest, for it illustrates how western-European time's rise to a position of global dominance—from the clock to the seven-day week—is one of the most pervasive, enduring, and taken-for-granted legacies of colonization in today's world.

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Recensione:

'This impressive book is the first sustained treatment of the effective British colonisation of indigenous time practices. Analysing both the Cape Colony and Australia, Nanni deftly draws our attention to the enormous significance of the temporal as well as the spatial, for the making of the colonial world'. --Alan Lester, Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Sussex

'This impressive book is the first sustained treatment of the effective British colonisation of indigenous time practices. Analysing both the Cape Colony and Australia, Nanni deftly draws our attention to the enormous significance of the temporal as well as the spatial, for the making of the colonial world.' --Alan Lester, Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Sussex

L'autore:

Giordano Nanni is an ARC Research Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne

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• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0719082714
• ISBN 13: 9780719082719
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 254