Dividing Dar
Race, Space, and Colonial Construction in German Occupied Daressalam, 1850–1920
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Dividing Dar
Race, Space, and Colonial Construction in German Occupied Daressalam, 1850–1920
About this book
How did a diversity of intermediaries shape not only the everyday divisions but also the dynamics and growth of the colonial city? This is the central question of Dividing Dar. Focusing on South Asian elites, Askari soldiers and police, and a minority of European settlers, the book illustrates how three continents converged to produce the colonial city in East Africa. Dividing Dar shows how negotiations, ranging from contestation to anti-colonial resistance, derailed German colonial plans to transform African "cosmopolitanism" into neatly divided races and city spaces.
Dividing Dar offers a novel approach to colonial urban history. In contrast to the traditional focus on top-down urban planning, knowledge production, and municipal politics, the book builds on a growing body of literature on colonial intermediaries and urbanism "from the middle" to address questions of historical agency, the construction of sociocultural hierarchies, and the mutations of African urbanism under the forces of German colonial occupation.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note On Translation
- Glossary: Spellings and Usage
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 German Variations of Colonial City Building in Africa, 1884–1919
- Chapter 2 Nineteenth-Century East African Urbanism: Between Narrative and Reality
- Chapter 3 Late Nineteenth-Century Daressalam: Narratives of Ruin and Imperial Destruction
- Chapter 4 Building the Colonial State: Military Practice and Colonial Intermediaries in Constructing the Military-Bureaucratic City, 1890–1895
- Chapter 5 Public Health and Sanitation as Supporting Structures of Segregation, 1891–1900
- Chapter 6 South Asian Agitation and African Resistance: Colonial Planning Discord, 1900–1906
- Chapter 7 Askari Building Police: Surveillance, Boundaries, and African Quarters, 1905–1911
- Chapter 8 The Death Zone and Violence of Order, 1911–1914
- Conclusion
- Index