Colonisation of time : ritual, routine and resistance in the British empire / Giordano Nanni
- Bib ID:
- 5917641
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Nanni, Giordano
- Description:
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- Manchester : Manchester Univ. Press, 2012
- xviii, 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0719082714
- 9780719082719
- Full contents:
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- Machine generated contents note: 1.Clocks, Sabbaths and seven-day weeks: the forging of European temporal identities
- 2.Terra sine tempore: colonial constructions of `Aboriginal time'
- 3.Cultural curfews: the contestation of time in settler-colonial Victoria
- 4.`The moons are always out of order': colonial constructions of `African time'
- 5.Empire of the seventh day: time and the Sabbath beyond the Cape frontiers
- 6.Lovedale: missionary schools and the reform of `African time'
- 7.Conclusion: from colonisation to globalisation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographies (p. 237-246) and index.
- Subject:
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- Imperialism -- History
- Indigenous peoples -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History
- Indigenous peoples -- Victoria -- History
- Time perception -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope
- Time perception -- Victoria
- British -- South Africa -- History -- 19th century
- British -- Australia -- History
- Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- History -- 1795-1872
- Victoria -- History
- Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Civilization -- 19th century
- Australia -- Civilization -- 19th century
- Australian
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