Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables vii
4. Introduction. Cooperation and Empire: Local Realities of Global Processes 1
5. Part I Case Studies
6. Chapter 1 Caciques: Indigenous Rulers and the Colonial Regime in Yucatán in the Sixteenth Century 33
7. Chapter 2 Connecting Worlds: Women as Intermediaries in the Portuguese Overseas Empire, 1500–1600 58
8. Chapter 3 Cooperation and Cultural Adaption: British Diplomats at the Court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, c. 1779–1815 90
9. Chapter 4 Local Cooperation in a Subversive Colony: Martinique 1802–1809 115
10. Chapter 5 Uncle Toms and Kupapas ‘Collaboration’ versus Alliance in a Nineteenth- Century New Zealand Context 144
11. Chapter 6 ‘Collaboration’ or Sabotage? The Settlers in German Southwest Africa between Colonial State and Indigenous Polities 169
12. Chapter 7 Chieftaincy as a Political Resource in the German Colony of Cameroon, 1884–1916 194
13. Chapter 8 Cooperation at its Limits: Re-Reading the British Constitution in South Africa 223
14. Chapter 9 Key Alliance? ‘Native Guards’ and European Administrators in Sub-Saharan Africa from a Comparative Perspective (1918–1959) 240
15. Chapter 10 The Cooperation between the British and Faisal I of Iraq (1921–1932) Evolution of a Romance 266
16. Chapter 11 Collaborating on Unequal Terms: Cross-Cultural Cooperation and Educational Work in Colonial Sudan, 1934–1956 292
17. Part II Concluding Essays
18. Chapter 12 Indigenous Agents of Colonial Rule in Africa and India: Defining the Colonial State through its Secondary Bureaucracy 325
19. Chapter 13 Indigenous Cooperation: Foundation of Colonial Empires or New Historical Myth? 363
20. Index 377