Finnish colonial encounters : from anti-imperialism to cultural colonialism and complicity / edited by Raita Merivirta, Leila Koivunen, Timo Särkkä.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Merivirta, Raita, 1975- editor.

Koivunen, Leila, editor.

Särkkä, Timo, editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

McWilliams-Tattersall Fund.

Series:

Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperialism.

Colonies.

History.

International relations.

Finland--Foreign relations--Europe.

Finland.

Europe--Foreign relations--Finland.

Europe.

Europe--Colonies--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1. Finns in the Colonial World; Raita Merivirta, Leila Koivunen & Timo Sarkka

Part I: State, Nation and Colonialism in Finland

2. Wisdom of the Oppressed: Finnish Colonial Complicities in the Age of the Russian Empire; Pekka Rantanen, Petri Ruuska & Timo Sarkka

3. Finnish Parliamentarians Conceptions of Imperialism and Colonialism, 1917-1995; Mika Suonpaa & Matti Valimaki

4. Settler Colonial Eyes: Finnish Travel Writers and the Colonization of Petsamo; Janne Lahti

5. Nation-building and Colonialism: The Early Skolt Sami Research of Vaino Tanner; Jukka Nyyssonen

Part II: Colonial Encounters in Finland

6. Queensland Cannibals : Encountered in Finland (1886): Locally Rooted Visions of Exhibitions of Colonized People; Leila Koivunen

7. Colonialism, Race and White Innocence in Finnish Childrens Literature: Anni Swans 1920s Serial Uutisasukkaana Austraaliassa ; Raita Merivirta

8. Encountering Colonial Worlds through Missionary Maps in the Late Nineteenth-Century Grand Duchy of Finland; Johanna Skurnik

Part III: Finns Colonial Encounters Abroad

9. From the Eastern Front to the Western Frontier: The Transimperial Life of a Finnish Worker during the First World War; Aleksi Huhta

10. Photography and the Religious Encounter: Finnish Missionaries Representations of the Owambo, Namibia; Napandulwe Shiweda

11. Did you really have a place in the Boer War? : Colonial Conflict and the Contested Production of Finnish Nationality, 1899-1908; Wm. Matthew Kennedy & Chris Holdridge

12. The Pioneer Men : Making of Finnish Settler Identity in Southern Africa pre-1914; Timo Sarkka.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed Janurary 10, 2022).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the McWilliams-Tattersall Fund.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9783030806101

3030806103

Publisher Number:

99989514955

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