The colonisation of time : ritual, routine and resistance in the British Empire /: ritual, routine and resistance in the British Empire. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Giordano Nanni.
• Authors: Nanni, Giordano
• Contents: 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
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 304.23709171241; Time; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Social life and customs
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526118400
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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