Author: R. Bright Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137316578 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 277
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This book explores the decision of the British Empire to import Chinese labour to southern Africa despite the already tense racial situation in the region. It enables a clearer understanding of racial and political developments in southern Africa during the reconstruction period and places localised issues within a wider historiography.
Author: Rachel Bright Publisher: ISBN: Category : Foreign workers, Chinese Languages : en Pages : 608
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In 1902, the importation of Chinese labourers was a dramatic solution to the unskilled labour shortage which had always plagued the Transvaal gold mines. But after the South African War ended in May 1902, the British administration's plans to bring stability to the region depended on increasing the British population and improving the economy. The obvious way to make that happen was to help the mines become operational and profitable as quickly as possible. The unelected Transvaal administration and the mines worked together to win imperial approval for the importation of indentured labour from Asia. Between 1904 and 1906, 63,695 Chinese men were imported for work in the gold mines. The intense public interest in the scheme made it the most widely publicised use of indentured labour at any time in the British empire. Because little has been written on the period in the past twenty years, post-South African War historiography remains pre-occupied with the relationship between mines and the British government, either to support or denounce a Marxist interpretation of imperial governance. And because the Chinese were forcibly repatriated by 1910, the Chinese-labour experiment is largely absent from 'orientalist' or Chinese migration history. This dissertation situates this labour-scheme within current national, imperial and global historiography to provide a clearer understanding of the racial assumptions, as opposed to economic considerations, which dictated the use of Chinese labour. It also explains why the British government sanctioned such a controversial proposal while simultaneously engaging in heated discourses with the other 'white' colonies over possible imperial federation, imperial citizenship and the use of anti-Asian immigration legislation.
Author: R. Bright Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137316578 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 378
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This book explores the decision of the British Empire to import Chinese labour to southern Africa despite the already tense racial situation in the region. It enables a clearer understanding of racial and political developments in southern Africa during the reconstruction period and places localised issues within a wider historiography.
Author: David E. Torrance Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 0773565493 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 305
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David Torrance examines Lord Selborne's conception of empire and, by implication, the nature of British imperialism, focusing on the Chinese labour controversy, the self-government issue, the development of racial segregation, and the creation of the Union of South Africa. He reassesses the role of the imperial factor in shaping the state, economy, and society of twentieth-century South Africa. Behind the debate over imperial policy, Torrance shows, were deep and bitter divisions that were inextricably linked to domestic tensions within Britain itself. The Strange Death of the Liberal Empire provides a clearer understanding of British imperial policy and of a crucial period in South African history.
Author: Toyin Falola Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110678012 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 439
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This handbook places emphasis on modern/contemporary times, and offers relevant sophisticated and comprehensive overviews. It aims to emphasize the religious, economic, political, cultural and social connections between Africa and the rest of the world and features comparisons as well as an interdisciplinary approach in order to examine the place of Africa in global history. "This book makes an important contribution to the discussion on the place of Africa in the world and of the world in Africa. An outstanding work of scholarship, it powerfully demonstrates that Africa is not marginal to global concerns. Its labor and resources have made our world, and the continent deserves our respect." – Mukhtar Umar Bunza, Professor of Social History, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, and Commissioner for Higher Education, Kebbi State, Nigeria "This is a deep plunge into the critical place of Africa in global history. The handbook blends a rich set of important tapestries and analysis of the conceptual framework of African diaspora histories, imperialism and globalization. By foregrounding the authentic voices of African interpreters of transnational interactions and exchanges, the Handbook demonstrates a genuine commitment to the promotion of decolonized and indigenous knowledge on African continent and its peoples." – Samuel Oloruntoba, Visiting Research Professor, Institute of African Studies, Carleton University
Author: Jane Lydon Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000213102 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 228
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With their power to create a sense of proximity and empathy, photographs have long been a crucial means of exchanging ideas between people across the globe; this book explores the role of photography in shaping ideas about race and difference from the 1840s to the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights. Focusing on Australian experience in a global context, a rich selection of case studies – drawing on a range of visual genres, from portraiture to ethnographic to scientific photographs – show how photographic encounters between Aboriginals, missionaries, scientists, photographers and writers fuelled international debates about morality, law, politics and human rights.Drawing on new archival research, Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire is essential reading for students and scholars of race, visuality and the histories of empire and human rights.
Author: Enrique Martino Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110755963 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 323
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Touts is a historical account of the troubled formation of a colonial labor market in the Gulf of Guinea and a major contribution to the historiography of indentured labor, which has relatively few reference points in Africa. The setting is West Africa’s largest island, Fernando Po or Bioko in today’s Equatorial Guinea, 100 kilometers off the coast of Nigeria. The Spanish ruled this often-ignored island from the mid-nineteenth century until 1968. A booming plantation economy led to the arrival of several hundred thousand West African, principally Nigerian, contract workers on steamships and canoes. In Touts, Enrique Martino traces the confusing transition from slavery to other labor regimes, paying particular attention to the labor brokers and their financial, logistical, and clandestine techniques for bringing workers to the island. Martino combines multi-sited archival research with the concept of touts as "lumpen-brokers" to offer a detailed study of how commercial labor relations could develop, shift and collapse through the recruiters’ own techniques, such as large wage advances and elaborate deceptions. The result is a pathbreaking reconnection of labor mobility, contract law, informal credit structures and exchange practices in African history.
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