Human porterage and colonial state formation in German East Africa, 1880s-1914 : tensions of transport / Andreas Greiner.
Greiner, Andreas, author.
2022
HE283.4
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Title
Human porterage and colonial state formation in German East Africa, 1880s-1914 : tensions of transport / Andreas Greiner.
Author
Greiner, Andreas, author.
ISBN
9783030894702 (electronic bk.)
3030894703 (electronic bk.)
9783030894696
303089469X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89470-2
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 271 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-89470-2 doi
Call Number
HE283.4
Dewey Decimal Classification
388.096709034
Summary
This book explores the role of caravan transport and human porterage in the colony of German East Africa (present-day mainland Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi). With caravan mobility being of pivotal importance to colonial rule during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the exploration of vernacular transport and its governance during this period sheds new light on the trajectories of colonial statehood. The author addresses key questions such as the African resilience to colonial interventions, the issue of labor recruitment, and the volatility of colonial infrastructure. This book unveils a fundamental contradiction in the way that German administrators dealt with precolonial modes of transport in East Africa. While colonizers championed for the abolishment of caravan transport, they strongly depended on porters in the absence of pack animals or railways. To bring this contradiction to the fore, the author studies the shifting role of caravans in East Africa during the era of high imperialism. Uncovering the extent to which porters and caravan entrepreneurs challenged and shaped colonial policymaking, this book provides an insightful read for historians studying German Empire and African history, as well as those interested in the history of transport and infrastructure. Andreas Greiner is a research fellow in global and transregional history at the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI), in the USA.. Before joining the GHI, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Max Weber Program at the European University Institute in Florence and a research assistant for the Chair of Modern History at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich). .
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies.
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Intro
A Note on Spelling, Currencies, and Measurements
Acknowledgments
Praise for Human Porterage and Colonial State Formation in German East Africa, 1880s-1914
Contents
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: Tensions of Transport
The "Porter Question" and the Tensions Within
State, Mobility, and Caravan Transport: A Research Agenda
Historical Context: The Long-Distance Caravan Economy
Sources and Chapter Outline
Chapter 2: Shouldering the State: Violence, Coercion, and Professionalism in State-Organized Transport
The Colonization of Transport

Military Porterage During German Conquest, 1889-1893
Early Interventions into the Labor Market
A Bifurcated Recruitment System
Making Transport Calculable
Spaces of Violence
Chapter 3: Facing an Established Business: The Self-Limitation of Colonial Rule
State-Making and the Ambiguity of Caravan Transport, c. 1890
Colonial Rule and the Balance of Interests
The Codification of Caravan Mobility
Challenges from the Inside and Outside
Trade Slump and Outmigration After 1900
Chapter 4: Carrying On: Caravan Labor and Legislation in the Colonial Era

Colonial Capitalism and Porter Labor
The Casualization of Transport Labor, c. 1900
An Economy Not Fully Colonized
Old and New Forms of Worker Resistance
Labor Migration and Policymaking in a Trans-colonial Sphere
Chapter 5: Managing Mobility: The Colonial State as a Gatekeeper of Caravan Travel
Legal and Spatial Tools of Gatekeeping, 1889-1906
Policing Trans-border Mobility
Health Regimes in the Borderlands
Chapter 6: Challenging Spatial Relations: The Colonial Quest for New Infrastructures
Infrastructure in Transition, c. 1890
A Growing State Apparatus

Investment and Divestment in Roads
Caravan and Railway
Chapter 7: Epilogue
Concluding Remarks
Glossary
Bibliography
Archival Sources
Bodleian Library, Commonwealth and African Manuscripts, Oxford, United Kingdom (BDL)
British Library, Endangered Archives Programme, London, United Kingdom (BL)
Bundesarchiv Abteilung Berlin-Lichterfelde, Germany (BAB)
Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany (GStA)
Evangelisch-Lutherisches Missionswerk Leipzig, Halle/Saale, Germany (ELM)
Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde, Leipzig, Germany (IFL)

National Archives of the United Kingdom, Kew, United Kingdom (KEW)
Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, Germany (REM)
Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium (RMCA)
Staatsarchiv Hamburg, Germany (StAHH)
Tanzania National Archives, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (TNA)
Zanzibar National Archives, Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania (ZNA)
British Parliamentary Papers
German Parliamentary Papers
Annual Reports
Law Books
Newspapers and Periodicals
Books and Articles
Index

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