Cooperation and Empire

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

• List of Figures and TablesIntroduction: Cooperation and Empire. Local Realities of Global Processes
Tanja Bührer, Flavio Eichmann, Stig Förster and Benedikt StuchteyPART I: CASE STUDIESChapter 1. 
Caciques: Indigenous Rulers and the Colonial Regime in Yucatán in the Sixteenth Century
Ute SchürenChapter 2. 
Connecting Worlds: Women as Intermediaries in the Portuguese Overseas Empire, 1500–1600Amélia Polónia and Rosa CapelãoChapter 3. 
Cooperation and Cultural Adaption: British Diplomats at the Court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, c. 1779–1815
Tanja BührerChapter 4. 
Local Cooperation in a Subversive Colony: Martinique 1802–09
Flavio EichmannChapter 5
. Uncle Toms and Kupapas: ‘Collaboration’ versus Alliance in a Nineteenth-Century New Zealand ContextVincent O’MalleyChapter 6
. ‘Collaboration’ or Sabotage? The Settlers in German Southwest Africa between Colonial State and Indigenous Polities
Matthias HäußlerChapter 7
. Chieftaincy as a Political Resource in the German Colony of Cameroon, 1884–1916
Ulrike SchaperChapter 8
. Cooperation at its Limits: Re-Reading the British Constitution in South Africa
Charles V. ReedChapter 9. 
Key Alliance? ‘Native Guards’ and European Administrators in Sub-Saharan Africa from a Comparative Perspective (1918–59)
Alexander KeeseChapter 10
. The Cooperation between the British and Faisal I of Iraq (1921–32): Evolution of a RomanceMyriam YakoubiChapter 11
. Collaborating on Unequal Terms: Cross-Cultural Co-operation and Educational Work in Colonial Sudan, 1934–56
Iris Seri-HerschPART II: CONCLUDING ESSAYSChapter 12. 
Indigenous Agents of Colonial Rule in Africa and India: Defining the Colonial State through its Secondary BureaucracyRalph A. AustenChapter 13
. Indigenous Cooperation: Foundation of Colonial Empires or New Historical Myth?Wolfgang ReinhardIndex

“The editors of this stimulating volume should be congratulated for bringing together such a wide range of topics without a loss of focus. This book will surely serve as food for thought for anyone interested in this important topic.” • Comparativ“Provocative and original, these contributions challenge us to rethink the basic tenets of colonial governance. The editors avoid the pitfall common to numerous collections: atomized chapters that fail to relate to each other. Here, the contributions are strongly connected by the issue of local or indigenous co-operation in imperial conquest, administration and fiscal exaction.” • Martin Thomas, University of Exeter