Table of Contents

Introduction: Cooperation and Empire. Local Realities of Global Processes
Tanja Bührer, Flavio Eichmann, Stig Förster and Benedikt Stuchtey

PART I: CASE STUDIES

Chapter 1. Caciques: Indigenous Rulers and the Colonial Regime in Yucatán in the Sixteenth Century
Ute Schüren

Chapter 2. Connecting Worlds: Women as Intermediaries in the Portuguese Overseas Empire, 1500–1600
Amélia Polónia and Rosa Capelão

Chapter 3. Cooperation and Cultural Adaption: British Diplomats at the Court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, c. 1779–1815
Tanja Bührer

Chapter 4. Local Cooperation in a Subversive Colony: Martinique 1802–09
Flavio Eichmann

Chapter 5. Uncle Toms and Kupapas: ‘Collaboration’ versus Alliance in a Nineteenth-Century New Zealand Context
Vincent O’Malley

Chapter 6. ‘Collaboration’ or Sabotage? The Settlers in German Southwest Africa between Colonial State and Indigenous Polities
Matthias Häußler

Chapter 7. Chieftaincy as a Political Resource in the German Colony of Cameroon, 1884–1916
Ulrike Schaper

Chapter 8. Cooperation at its Limits: Re-Reading the British Constitution in South Africa
Charles V. Reed

Chapter 9. Key Alliance? ‘Native Guards’ and European Administrators in Sub-Saharan Africa from a Comparative Perspective (1918–59)
Alexander Keese

Chapter 10. The Cooperation between the British and Faisal I of Iraq (1921–32): Evolution of a Romance
Myriam Yakoubi

Chapter 11. Collaborating on Unequal Terms: Cross-Cultural Co-operation and Educational Work in Colonial Sudan, 1934–56
Iris Seri-Hersch

PART II: CONCLUDING ESSAYS

Chapter 12. Indigenous Agents of Colonial Rule in Africa and India: Defining the Colonial State through its Secondary Bureaucracy
Ralph A. Austen

Chapter 13. Indigenous Cooperation: Foundation of Colonial Empires or New Historical Myth?
Wolfgang Reinhard

Index