The colonisation of time: Ritual, routine and resistance in the British Empire

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...