Navigating Colonial Orders Noregian Entrepreneurship in Africa and Oceania [Hardcover]

Norwegians in colonial Africa and Oceania had varying aspirations and adapted in different ways to changing social, political and geographical circumstances in foreign, colonial settings. They included Norwegian shipowners, captains, and diplomats; traders and whalers along the African coast and in Antarctica; large-scale plantation owners in Mozambique and Hawaii; big business men in South Africa; jacks of all trades in the Solomon Islands; timber merchants on Zanzibar coffee farmers in Kenya; and King Leopolds footmen in Congo. This collection reveals narratives of the colonial era that are often ignored or obscured by the national histories of former colonial powers. It charts the entrepreneurial routes chosen by various Norwegians and the places they ventured, while demonstrating the importance of recognizing the complicity of such non-colonial colonials for understanding the complexity of colonial history.

List of Illustrations

Preface
Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland

List of Contributors

Introduction:Norwegians Navigating Colonial Orders in Africa and Oceania: an Introduction
Bj?rn Enge Bertelsen

Chapter 1.Swedish and Norwegian Shipping to South Africa 1850-1914
Knut M. Nygaard

Chapter 2.Long Haul Tramp Trade and Norwegian Sailing Ships in (Africa, Australia and the Pacific, 1850-1920: Captain Haaves Voyages
Gustav S?tra

Chapter 3.Liminal but Omnipotent: Thesen & Co.  Norwegian Migrants in the Cape Colony
Erlend Eidsvik

Chapter 4.Business Communication in Colonial Times: The Norway-East Africa Trading Company in Zanzibar 1895-1925
Anne K. Bang

Chapter 5.(Three Black Labourers Did the Job of Two Whites. African Labourers in Modern Norwegian Whaling
Dag Ingemar B?rresen

Chapter 6.The ColS°