Colonial Switzerland : Rethinking Colonialism from the Margins

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: The End of Innocence: Debating Colonialism in Switzerland -- Part I: Colonialism and Science -- 1 On the Tropical Origins of the Alps: Science and the Colonial Imagination of Switzerland, 1700-19...

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1. Verfasser: Purtschert, P. (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Fischer-Tiné, H.
Format: E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015
Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel:Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
Schlagworte:Colonies Imperialism Transnationalism Neutrality Racism Postcolonialism Social history Electronic books
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (328 p)
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Zusammenfassung:Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: The End of Innocence: Debating Colonialism in Switzerland -- Part I: Colonialism and Science -- 1 On the Tropical Origins of the Alps: Science and the Colonial Imagination of Switzerland, 1700-1900 -- 2 Race in the Making: Colonial Encounters, Body Measurements and the Global Dimensions of Swiss Racial Science, 1900-1950 -- 3 The Other's Colony: Switzerland and the Discovery of Côte d'Ivoire -- Part II: (Post)colonial Economies
4 Patriotic Bonds and the Danger of Estrangement: Swiss Networks in Colonial South-East Asia, 1850-1930 -- 5 'Wonderland' Peru: Migration and the Making of an Andean Switzerland -- 6 Bollywood, Chicken Curry - and IT: The Public Spectacle of the Indian Exotic, and Postcolonial Anxieties in Switzerland -- Part III: (Post)colonial Self-Representations -- 7 Becoming Imperial: A Swiss Woman's Shifting Identity in British Southern Africa -- 8 From 'Native' Alpine Guides to Foreign 'Sahibs' in the Himalayas: Swiss Identity Formation at the Moment of Decolonization
9 Overburdened White Men (and Women): Ruptured Self-Images of Young Swiss in the 'Third World', 1940s-1970s -- Part IV: (Post)colonial Politics and Counter-Politics -- 10 The Other Side of Internationalism: Switzerland as a Hub of Militant Anti-Colonialism, c. 1910-1920 -- 11 'The Chinaman of old cannot be compared to the Chinaman of today': Official Views of China and the Construction of Colonial Knowledge in Interwar Switzerland -- 12 Glimpses into the Hearts of Whiteness: Institutions of Intimacy and the Desirable National
Colonial Complicities and Hidden Imperial Entanglements: An Afterword -- Index
Beschreibung:Description based upon print version of record
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (328 p)
ISBN:9781137442734
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