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The colonisation of time by Giordano Nanni, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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The colonisation of time by Giordano Nanni, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
The colonisation of time by Giordano Nanni, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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The colonisation of time by Giordano Nanni, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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Much has been written about time in Western society. But how did "the rest" of the world come to share the West's dominant view of time? Who were the first emissaries of the culture of the clock? And, most importantly, by what means did they gain a following?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 primarysources, and a comparative analysis of two British settler-colonies - Victoria, Australia, and the Cape Colony, South Africa - this book explores the intimate relationship between the colonisation of time and the conquest of land; time's instrumentality in the exportation of Christianity, capitalism, and modernity, and the role it played in forging European identities and civilities against an imaginary, "time-less" and "irregular" other. Both scholars and general readers will find this book valuable for its attentiveness to the tensions across and within colonial societies over tehreform of Indigenous temporalities; as well as to the range of responses that Indigenous societies adopted in order to resist, appropriate or integrate the colonisers' temporal culture. Adding new depth to our understanding of imperial power and the ways in which it was exercised and limited, The colonisation of time documents the remarkable story behind the rise to global dominance of western-time, from the clock to the seven-day week, revealing its status as one of the mostenduring, pervasive and taken-for-granted legacies of colonisation in today's world. | The colonisation of time by Giordano Nanni, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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