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The Colonisation of Time: Ritual, Routine and Resistance in the British Empire (Studies in Imperialism)
Giordano Nanni
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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 colonisation during the nineteenth 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 ... Read more
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 colonisation during the nineteenth 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Number of pages
276
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Studies in Imperialism
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719091292
SKU
V9780719091292
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About Giordano Nanni
Giordano Nanni is an Honorary Fellow of the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. -- .
Reviews for The Colonisation of Time: Ritual, Routine and Resistance in the British Empire (Studies in Imperialism)
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 ... Read more