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Central European Missionaries in Sudan: Geopolitics and Alternative Colonialism in Mid-Nineteenth Century Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2018

Helge Wendt
Helge Wendt*
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany. Email: hwendt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
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Abstract

The article gives an example of how actors and processes should be differentiated from each other in an imperial context that concerns both a European and a non-European region. Some of the ‘Austrian’ missionaries who worked in the Catholic mission in southern Sudan were of Slavic or Italian origin. Their double identity shaped the way they conceived their pastoral work. Nevertheless, these missionaries were not the only group of people who were engaged in this Austrian colonial endeavour in mid-nineteenth century Sudan.

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Focus: Central Europe and Colonialism
Information
European Review , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , July 2018 , pp. 481 - 491
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© Academia Europaea 2018 

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