Finnish Colonial Encounters: From Anti-Imperialism to Cultural Colonialism and Complicity (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies)

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Finns in the Colonial World
	The Construction of the Finnish Nation and State Within Imperial Russia
	Colonialism and the Sámi
	Finnish Colonial Activity Abroad
	Structure of the Book and Chapter Division
	References
Part I: State, Nation, and Colonialism in Finland
	Chapter 2: Wisdom of the Oppressed: Finnish Colonial Complicities in the Age of the Russian Empire
		Shifting Centers of Power
		Resistance Against Russification
		Slavelands—in Finland?
		Criticism of Imperialism
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 3: Finnish Parliamentarians’ Conceptions of Imperialism and Colonialism, 1917–1995
		Imperial Amalgamation and the Capitalism-Imperialism Nexus
		The League of Nations, the Åland Question, and Imperial Continuities
		Colonial Metaphors of Regional Inequality
		New Left Anti-Imperialism
		European Integration, Dissolution of the Soviet Union, and Imagery of Empire
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 4: Settler Colonial Eyes: Finnish Travel Writers and the Colonization of Petsamo
		Settler Colonialism, Petsamo, and the Travelers
		A Wild and Empty Land
		Ethnic Spaces
		Replacement on the Settler Frontier
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 5: Nation-Building and Colonialism: The Early Skolt Sami Research of Väinö Tanner
		Introduction
		Tanner’s Early Career and His First Field Trips
		Summers in Petsamo and the Main Work on the Skolt Sami
		Tanner Explicates His View on Colonialism
		Conclusions
		References
			Primary Sources
			Manuscripts
			Secondary Sources
Part II: Colonial Encounters in Finland
	Chapter 6: “Queensland Cannibals” Encountered in Finland (1886): Locally Rooted Visions of Exhibitions of Colonized People
		The Exhibition Arrives: Pride in Being Entertained
		Language Barrier and Lack of Words
		Amalgamating the Foreign and the Familiar
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 7: Colonialism, Race, and White Innocence in Finnish Children’s Literature: Anni Swan’s 1920s’ Serial “Uutisasukkaana Austraaliassa”
		Finnish Settlers in Queensland
		Racialization of Aboriginal People
		Cannibal Cruelty and White Innocence
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 8: Encountering Colonial Worlds Through Missionary Maps in the Late-Nineteenth-Century Grand Duchy of Finland
		Touring the World for Transformation
		Constructing Colonial Spaces
		Eyes on Africa
		Conclusions
		References
Part III: Finns’ Colonial Encounters Abroad
	Chapter 9: From the Eastern Front to the Western Frontier: The Transimperial Life of a Finnish Worker During the First World War
		Introduction
		“The Greatest Mistake of My Life”: Volunteering for the Tsar
		Failed Migrations: America, Russia, Congo
		A Refugee Colonist
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 10: Photography and the Religious Encounter: Finnish Missionaries’ Representations of the Owambo, Namibia
		Introduction
		Finnish Missionaries and Photography in the Owambo Region
		Missionary Photography in Context
		Photographs of the Owambo by Finnish Missionaries
		August Pettinen’s Photographs of the Owambo
		Hannu Haahti’s Photographs of the Owambo
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 11: “Did You Really Have a Place in the Boer War?”: Colonial Conflict and the Contested Production of “Finnish” Nationality, 1899–1908
		The Imagined South Africa in Finland
		Finnish Realities in South Africa
		Contesting Finland’s South African Encounter
		Conclusion
		References
			Primary Sources
			Newspapers
			Manuscripts
			Secondary Sources
	Chapter 12: The “Pioneer Men”: Making of Finnish Settler Identity in Southern Africa Pre-1914
		The Mineral Revolution and Finnish Settlers in Colonial Southern Africa
		Emergence of the Rhodesian Settler Identity
		Being a Pioneer in Northern Rhodesia and Katanga
		The Pioneer Men in Retrospect
		References
Index