The colonisation of time is a highly original and long overdue
examination of the ways that western-European and specifically
British concepts and rituals of time were imposed on other cultures
as a fundamental component of colonisation during the nineteenth
century. Based on a wealth of primary sources, it explores the
intimate relationship between the colonisation of time and space in
two British settler-colonies (Victoria, Australia and the Cape
Colony, South Africa) and its instrumental role in the exportation
of Christianity, capitalism and modernity, thus adding new depth to
our understanding of imperial power and of the ways in which it was
exercised and limited. All those intrigued by the concept of time
will find this book of interest, for it illustrates how
western-European time's rise to a position of global dominance -
from the clock to the seven-day week - is one of the most
pervasive, enduring and taken-for-granted legacies of colonisation
in today's world. -- .
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