General Editor’s introduction
Introduction
1. Clocks, Sabbaths and seven-day weeks: The forging of 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’: 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
Select bibliography
Index
Giordano Nanni is an Honorary Fellow of the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne.
This impressive book is the first sustained treatment of the
effective British colonisation of indigenous time practices.
Analysing both the Cape Colony and Australia, Nanni deftly draws
our attention to the enormous significance of the temporal as well
as the spatial, for the making of the colonial world'.
Alan Lester, Professor of Historical Geography at the University of
Sussex
'A very fine study, one that has much to offer the broad range of
scholars interested in understanding colonial struggles and their
ongoing legacy.'
Kirsten McKenzie, University of Sydney in American Historical
Review (April 2013)
[...] if the measure of a good book is that it should ignite the
reader’s imagination and suggest all kinds of questions for future
research, then this monograph delivers and is a welcome addition to
the literature on colonial studies.
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