Cooperation and Empire

Tanja Bührer is Assistant Professor at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and teaches European and Global History.

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Introduction: Cooperation and Empire. Local Realities of Global Processes


Tanja Bührer, Flavio Eichmann, Stig Förster and Benedikt Stuchtey



PART I: CASE STUDIES



Chapter 1. 
Caciques: Indigenous Rulers and the Colonial Regime in Yucatán in the Sixteenth Century


Ute Schüren



Chapter 2. 
Connecting Worlds: Women as Intermediaries in the Portuguese Overseas Empire, 1500–1600


Amélia Polónia and Rosa Capelão



Chapter 3. 
Cooperation and Cultural Adaption: British Diplomats at the Court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, c. 1779–1815


Tanja Bührer



Chapter 4. 
Local Cooperation in a Subversive Colony: Martinique 1802–09


Flavio Eichmann



Chapter 5
. Uncle Toms and Kupapas: ‘Collaboration’ versus Alliance in a Nineteenth-Century New Zealand Context


Vincent O’Malley



Chapter 6
. ‘Collaboration’ or Sabotage? The Settlers in German Southwest Africa between Colonial State and Indigenous Polities


Matthias Häußler



Chapter 7
. Chieftaincy as a Political Resource in the German Colony of Cameroon, 1884–1916


Ulrike Schaper



Chapter 8
. Cooperation at its Limits: Re-Reading the British Constitution in South Africa


Charles V. Reed



Chapter 9. 
Key Alliance? ‘Native Guards’ and European Administrators in Sub-Saharan Africa from a Comparative Perspective (1918–59)


Alexander Keese



Chapter 10
. The Cooperation between the British and Faisal I of Iraq (1921–32): Evolution of a Romance


Myriam Yakoubi



Chapter 11
. Collaborating on Unequal Terms: Cross-Cultural Co-operation and Educational Work in Colonial Sudan, 1934–56


Iris Seri-Hersch



PART II: CONCLUDING ESSAYS



Chapter 12. 
Indigenous Agents of Colonial Rule in Africa and India: Defining the Colonial State through its Secondary Bureaucracy


Ralph A. Austen



Chapter 13
. Indigenous Cooperation: Foundation of Colonial Empires or New Historical Myth?


Wolfgang Reinhard



Index