Colonial Switzerland : rethinking colonialism from the margins
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Colonial Switzerland : rethinking colonialism from the margins
(Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series / general editor, A.G. Hopkins)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
- : hardback
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
States without former colonies, it has been argued, were intensely involved in colonial practices. This anthology looks at Switzerland, which, by its very strong economic involvements with colonialism, its doctrine of neutrality, and its transnationally entangled scientific community, constitutes a perfect case in point.
Table of Contents
- Contents 1. On the Tropical Origins of the Alps. Science and the Colonial Imagination of Switzerland, 1700-1900
- Bernhard C. Schar 2. Race in the Making: Colonial Encounters, Body Measurements and the Global Dimensions of Swiss Racial Science, 1900-1950
- Pascal Germann 3. The Other's Colony. Switzerland and the Discovery of Cote d'Ivoire
- Lukas Meier 4. Patriotic Bonds and the Danger of Estrangement: Swiss Networks in Colonial Southeast Asia (1850-1930)
- Andreas Zangger 5. 'Wonderland' Peru: Migration and the Making of an Andean Switzerland
- Angela Sanders 6. Bollywood, Chicken Curry - and IT: The Public Spectacle of the Indian Exotic, and Postcolonial Anxieties in Switzerland
- Rohit Jain 7. Becoming Imperial: A Swiss Woman's Shifting Identity in British Southern Africa
- Ruramisai Charumbira 8. From 'Native' Alpine Guides to Foreign 'Sahibs' in the Himalayas: Swiss Identity Formation at the Moment of Decolonization
- Patricia Purtschert 9. Overburdened White Men (and Women). Ruptured Self-Images of Young Swiss in the 'Third World' (1950s to 1970s)
- Patricia Hongler and Marina Lienhard 10. The Other Side of Internationalism: Switzerland as Hub of Militant Anti-Colonialism (c. 1910-1920)
- Harald Fischer-Tine 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
- Ariane Knusel 12. Glimpses into the Hearts of Whiteness: Institutions of Intimacy and the Desirable National
- Anne Lavanchy Colonial Complicities and Hidden Imperial Entanglements: An Afterword
- Shalini Randeria
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