Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Maps x
5. Preface xiv
6. Introduction NORWEGIANS NAVIGATING COLONIAL ORDERS IN AFRICA AND OCEANIA 1
7. 1 INTERCONNECTING THE BRITISH EMPIRE Swedish and Norwegian Shipping to South Africa, 1850–1914 38
8. 2 LONG-HAUL TRAMP TRADE AND NORWEGIAN SAILING SHIPS IN AFRICA, AUSTRALIA AND THE PACIFIC, 1850–1920 Captain Haave’s Voyages 54
9. 3 LIMINAL BUT OMNIPOTENT Thesen & Co. – Norwegian Migrants in the Cape Colony 79
10. 4 BUSINESS COMMUNICATION IN COLONIAL TIMES The Norway-East Africa Trading Company in Zanzibar, 1895–1925 106
11. 5 ‘THREE BLACK LABOURERS DID THE JOB OF TWO WHITES’ African Labourers in Modern Norwegian Whaling 127
12. 6 THE CONSULAR AFFAIRS ISSUE AND COLONIALISM 153
13. 7 NORWEGIAN SHIPPING AND LANDFALL IN THE SOUTH SEA IN THE AGE OF SAIL 173
14. 8 ADVENTUROUS ADAPTABILITY IN THE SOUTH SEA Norwegians in ‘the Terrible Solomons’, ca. 1870–1930 187
15. 9 NORWEGIANS IN THE COOK ISLANDS The Legacy of Captain Reinert G. Jonassen (1866–1915) 219
16. 10 FROM ADVENTURE TO INDUSTRY AND NATION MAKING The History of a Norwegian Sugar Plantation in Hawai’i 240
17. 11 SCANDINAVIANS IN COLONIAL TRADING COMPANIES AND CAPITAL-INTENSIVE NETWORKS The Case of Christian Thams 267
18. 12 COLONIALISM IN NORWEGIAN AND PORTUGUESE Madal in Mozambique 291
19. 13 NORWEGIAN INVESTORS AND THEIR AGENTS IN COLONIAL KENYA 321
20. 14 SCANDINAVIAN AGENTS AND ENTREPRENEURS IN THE SCRAMBLE FOR ETHNOGRAPHICA DURING COLONIAL EXPANSION IN THE CONGO 339
21. Afterword HER OG NÅ (HERE AND NOW) History and the Idea of Globalization 368
22. Contributors 374
23. Index 378