Dividing Dar: Race, Space, and Colonial Construction in German Occupied Daressalam, 1850–1920

Patrick Christopher Hege

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Dividing Dar

Race, Space, and Colonial Construction in German Occupied Daressalam, 1850–1920

Patrick Christopher Hege

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2025

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Volume 10 | Africa in Global History

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How did a diversity of intermediaries shape not only the everyday divisions but also the dynamics and growth of the colonial city? This is the central question of Dividing Dar. Focusing on South Asian elites, Askari soldiers and police, and a minority of European settlers, the book illustrates how three continents converged to produce the colonial city in East Africa. Dividing Dar shows how negotiations, ranging from contestation to anti-colonial resistance, derailed German colonial plans to transform African "cosmopolitanism" into neatly divided races and city spaces.

Dividing Dar offers a novel approach to colonial urban history. In contrast to the traditional focus on top-down urban planning, knowledge production, and municipal politics, the book builds on a growing body of literature on colonial intermediaries and urbanism "from the middle" to address questions of historical agency, the construction of sociocultural hierarchies, and the mutations of African urbanism under the forces of German colonial occupation.

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Patrick C. Hege, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Ethnological Museum Berlin, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
A Note On Translation Publicly Available Download PDF	XV
Glossary: Spellings and Usage Publicly Available Download PDF	XVII
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Chapter 1 German Variations of Colonial City Building in Africa, 1884–1919 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	27
Chapter 2 Nineteenth-Century East African Urbanism: Between Narrative and Reality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	44
Chapter 3 Late Nineteenth-Century Daressalam: Narratives of Ruin and Imperial Destruction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	67
Chapter 4 Building the Colonial State: Military Practice and Colonial Intermediaries in Constructing the Military-Bureaucratic City, 1890–1895 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	87
Chapter 5 Public Health and Sanitation as Supporting Structures of Segregation, 1891–1900 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	107
Chapter 6 South Asian Agitation and African Resistance: Colonial Planning Discord, 1900–1906 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	127
Chapter 7 Askari Building Police: Surveillance, Boundaries, and African Quarters, 1905–1911 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	145
Chapter 8 The Death Zone and Violence of Order, 1911–1914 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	173
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	205
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	213
List of Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	237
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	239
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	241

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eBook published on:

March 3, 2025

eBook ISBN:

9783111382968

Hardcover published on:

March 3, 2025

Hardcover ISBN:

9783111381336

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Front matter:

18

Main content:

245

Illustrations:

5

Coloured Illustrations:

25

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111382968

eBook ISBN: 9783111382968

Hardcover ISBN: 9783111381336

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colonialism; urban development; architecture; Africa

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Historiker/-innen mit den Schwerpunkten Afrika, deutscher Kolonialismus sowie Urbanismus

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