The Colonisation of Time: Ritual, Routine and Resistance in the British Empire - Couverture souple

Nanni, Giordano

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0719091292 ISBN 13 : 9780719091292

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2013

Synopsis

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 was exercised and limited. All those intrigued by the concept of time will find this book of interest, for it illustrates how western-European time's rise to a position of global dominance - from the clock to the seven-day week - is one of the most pervasive, enduring and taken-for-granted legacies of colonisation in today's world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Giordano Nanni is an ARC Research Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0719091292
• ISBN 13: 9780719091292
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
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