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Colonial Cities

Essays on Urbanism in a Colonial Context

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  1. Robert J. Ross
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  2. Gerard J. Telkamp
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Part of the book series: Comparative Studies in Overseas History (CSOH, volume 5)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Robert Ross, Gerard J. Telkamp
      Pages 1-6

    2. Colonial Cities: Global Pivots of Change

      • Anthony D. King
      Pages 7-32

  3. Case Studies

    1. Central America’s Autarkic Colonial Cities (1600–1800)

      • Adriaan C. Van Oss
      Pages 33-49

    2. Zeelandia, a Dutch Colonial City on Formosa (1624–1662)

      • J. L. Oosterhoff
      Pages 51-63

    3. An Insane Administration and Insanitary Town: The Dutch East India Company and Batavia (1619–1799)

      • Leonard Blussé
      Pages 65-85

    4. Eighteenth-Century Calcutta

      • P. J. Marshall
      Pages 87-104

    5. Cape Town (1750–1850): Synthesis in the Dialectic of Continents

      • Robert Ross
      Pages 105-121

    6. Rio de Janeiro: From Colonial Town to Imperial Capital (1808–1850)

      • Mary Karasch
      Pages 123-151

    7. A Caribbean Creole Capital: Kingston, Jamaica (1692–1938)

      • Colin G. Clarke
      Pages 153-170

    8. Algiers: Colonial Metropolis (1830–1961)

      • J. L. Miège
      Pages 171-179

    9. Saigon, or the Failure of an Ambition (1858–1945)

      • X. Guillaume
      Pages 181-192

    10. Dakar: Ville Impériale (1857–1960)

      • Raymond F. Betts
      Pages 193-206

    11. Bombay: from Fishing Village to Colonial Port City (1662–1947)

      • Dick Kooiman
      Pages 207-230

  4. Epilogue

    1. The Colonial City and the Post-Colonial World

      • G. A. De Bruijne
      Pages 231-243

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 245-250
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by ROBERT ROSS and GERARD J. TELKAMP I In a sense, cities were superfluous to the purposes of colonists. The Europeans who founded empires outside their own continent were primarily concerned with extracting those products which they could not acquire within Europe. These goods were largely agricultural, and grown most often in a climate not found within Europe. Even when, as in India before 1800, the major exports were manufactures, in general they were still made in the countryside rather than in the great cities. It was only on rare occasion when great mineral wealth was discovered that giant metropolises grew up around the site of extraction. Since their location was deter­ mined by geology, not economics, they might be in the most inaccessible and in­ convenient areas, but they too would draw labour off from the agricultural pursuits of the colony as a whole. From the point of view of the colonists, the cities were therefore in some respects necessary evils, as they were parasites on the rural producers, competing with the colonists in the process of surplus extraction. Nevertheless, the colonists could not do without cities. The requirements of colonisation demanded many unequivocally urban functions. Pre-eminent among these was of course the need for a port, to allow the export of colonial wares and the import of goods from Europe, or from other parts of the non-European world, in the country-trade as it was known around India.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Colonial Cities

  • Book Subtitle: Essays on Urbanism in a Colonial Context

  • Editors: Robert J. Ross, Gerard J. Telkamp

  • Series Title: Comparative Studies in Overseas History

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6119-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht 1985

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-247-2925-8Published: 31 December 1984

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-6121-0Published: 12 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-6119-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 250

  • Topics: History, general

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