Finnish Colonial Encounters: From Anti-Imperialism to Cultural Colonialism and Complicity

By Raita Merivirta

Foreword

1) Finns in the Colonial World

Part I: State, Nation and Colonialism in Finland

2) Wisdom of the Oppressed: Finnish Colonial Complicities in the Age of the Russian Empire

3) Finnish Parliamentarians' Conceptions of Imperialism and Colonialism, 1917-1995

4) Settler Colonial Eyes: Finnish Travel Writers and the Colonization of Petsamo

5) Nation-building and Colonialism: The Early Skolt Sami Research of V?in? Tanner

Part II: Colonial Encounters in Finland

6) "Queensland Cannibals" Encountered in Finland (1886): Locally Rooted Visions of Exhibitions of Colonized People

7) Colonialism, Race and White Innocence in Finnish Children's Literature: Anni Swan's 1920s' Serial "Uutisasukkaana Austraaliassa"

8) Encountering Colonial Worlds through Missionary Maps in the Late Nineteenth-Century Grand Duchy of Finland

Part III: Finns' Colonial Encounters Abroad

9) From the Eastern Front to the Western Frontier: The Transimperial Life of a Finnish Worker during the First World War

10) Photography and the Religious Encounter: Finnish Missionaries' Representations of the Owambo, Namibia

11) "Did you really have a place in the Boer War?" Colonial Conflict and the Contested Production of "Finnish" Nationality, 1899-1908

12) The "Pioneer Men" Making of Finnish Settler Identity in Southern Africa pre-1914

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303080609X
• ISBN13: 9783030806095
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"